Alexander Kluge Movies

In this interview Müller and Kluge explore the East German’s memories of the final days of the war. The session is introduced by a clip...

At 91 years of age, Alexander Kluge is solidly regarded as a trailblazing figure in New German Cinema and the avant-garde. He remains active and...

65 mm is the technical format with the best qualifications for classic cinema. The images and the history of cinema shift (as if the film were a...

Citing Nietzsche, Müller describes the motive of the philologist as "greed," "simply wanting to have everything, grasp everything, know...

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

In 1912 the Titanic sunk. In retrospect the event appears like a number that refers to the subsequent catastrophes of the 20th century. Hans Magnus...

The world's only opera to trigger a revolution during its premiere is "The Mute Girl of Portici" by Daniel Francois Esprit Auber. The audience in...

A short by Alexander Kluge.

A news documentary about the 1966 Venice Film Festival.

Assuming that an observer living in the year 6000 would contemplate our period, for example, from 1607 to 2008 (approximately the era of our opera),...

Fire brigades and rescue teams are the heroes of a disaster. They often save people's lives while risking their own. So it must have been terribly...

The story of the Argentine tango star Carlos Gardel is retold in a (computer graphic) theater in which his 1935 movie is projected. If the tango is...

Selected scenes from the Christoph Schlingensief revue at the Berliner Volksbühne .

A classical steel and rolling mill looks like an alchemical workshop. The project of industrialization went far beyond its original goals with regard...

The soul is an underwater entity. It expresses itself equally in Romeo and Juliet (by Vincenzo Bellini) and in the tragic fate of a deep-sea diver.

A short by Alexander Kluge.

Short science fiction film with footage from Willi Tobler und der Untergang der 6. Flotte.

People who do not have the patience or the opportunity to listen to all 86,000 operas that exist in the world need an opera guide. The opera guide is...

An officer of the Stasi (East German secret police) on a special mission ("OibE") reveals all about his experiences during the crisis of October and...

In his production of "Hamlet" at the Zurich Schauspielhaus, Christoph Schlingensief played the role of Fortinbras. This commander has the shortest...