Alexander Kluge Movies

Documentary about the current state of German cinema. Produced for German television.

Early Alexander Kluge short film that follows the career of a German policeman from World War I into the 1960s.

The Poetic Power of Theory: Aristotle, Heidegger, Spinoza, Marx, Nietzsche, Kant ("What Does it Mean to Orient Oneself in Thinking?"). Seven examples...

The clownish security chief of a West German business is obsessed with protecting his factory from fancied and real breaches, especially from groups...

Alexander Kluge’s News from Ideological Antiquity begins with Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein’s ambitious but unrealized plan to...

Alexander Kluge follows his father, a doctor, in his daily activity.

Since German Classicism, it has become customary to translate extreme, emotional events into a ballad, a popular form of song. This ‘Balladen...

Two women during WW2 living in a Hunsrück village embark on a trip to Vienna.

Combining fictional and documentary modes, the film takes a critical stance toward Frankfurt's public sphere and urban redevelopment. Despite the...

Outer space in 2034 is run by greedy corporations in a rundown bureaucracy. Two astronauts, who are not very smart, make their way with shady...

In this conversation, taking place shortly after the German reunification, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller discuss historical developments...

Early short by Alexander Kluge.

With pictures by James Ensor and Alexander Kluge. The opera The Mute Girl of Portici tells the story of a young mute woman in Naples who is seduced...

A short about the German composer and royal bandmaster Joseph Martin Kraus, often nicknamed ‘the Swedish Mozart’. A young man is seen...

In conversations with his friends and colleagues, among them Bernd Upnmoor, Helmut Herbst, Alexander Kluge, Klaus Wyborny, Daniel Kothenschulte and...

A meditation on the first 100 years of German cinema, featuring an assembly of German filmmakers.

The woman in the battlefield.

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...

Made with an eye to the autumn of 1980 when the German parliamentary elections took place, The Candidate examines Germany’s history past and...