Alexander Kluge Movies

Here Müller and Kluge explicitly address a theme that is latently present in many of their conversations: the relation of intellectuals to...

Love stories with unhappy endings, love stories with happy endings. From Romeo and Juliet in Frankfurt to the "Selfless Virgin in New York", from the...

A collaborative essay film regarding Fritz Lang.

A drama that strings together vignettes of events taken from everyday newspaper headlines. Germans are shown in their reactions to World War II,...

Alexander Kluge documents the preparations for an exhibition on the Staufer dynasty.

Müller describes Ovid's Metamorphoses, Golding's translation of which (1603) was one of Shakespeare's sources, as an encyclopedia of the Greek...

Animatronics, elephants, puppets, politicians, and more juxtaposed using three screens.

Two-hour television documentary by Alexander Kluge and Meinhard Prill on the documentary filmmakers of the "Stuttgart school".

Film about the Paper Tiger Television non-profit, low-budget public access television program and open media collective based in New York City.

A few months before his death, Müller responded to the keywords "breathing" and "smoking" with an anecdote that interprets breathing as an...

The title of the interview is from a line in a poem written by an American about the battle of Ypern in World War I: “My rendezvous with Death...

The faces of humans and monkeys have 50 muscles. They are necessary for facial expression, laughing, and crying: 60 million years of evolution were...

Alexander Kluge reflects on the medieval Staufer dynasty and draws a line from Emperor Barbarossa to Operation Barbarossa.

Anselm Kiefer is one of the most important painters of the present, Alexander Kluge's television interviews are legendary. Over several years, the...

A nobleman, Mr. Waller von Wallerstein, is fatally ill. He places an advertisement for the adoption of a child who is to continue the old noble line....

An homage to Max Horkheimer.

This "music magazine" is a montage of visually alienated historical film clips of tanks and soldiers (First and Second World War), pictorial...

The conversation begins on the topic of Müller’s plans for new plays. Müller tells us that he has promised to write a libretto for...

A news magazine program on important aspects of the history of postrevolutionary Cuba, consisting of two documentary film sequences about Castro and...