Alexander Kluge Movies

A reinvention of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, set in contemporary Manila as a rock musical.

Documentary aired on German television in 1989. Includes interviews with Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Alexander Kluge and more.

A short film by Alexander Kluge.

On the one hand, the beyond-Tropicália surreal, wild, ecstatic universe of Khavn de la Cruz, the Philippines’ internationally most...

Quoting from historian Tacitus' Annals, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller delve into the Roman Iron Age, talk about the modern style of Tacitus'...

Lilo Wanders as Countess Orlovska in the Polish resistance in 1944. She kills German officers after having given these young men pleasure in the...

On Love’s Struggle through the Millennia. A chat between Alexander Kluge and Miriam Hansen through the prism of Griffith's INTOLERANCE.

Strolling through France (Roanne, Nice and Carcassonne) with some excursions abroad (Munich, Montreal, New York).

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

In late antiquity, the religions were not yet rigidly opposed to each other, so that Christian apocrypha, the Babylonian Talmund and the Koran reveal...

In his experimental short film "Brutalität in Stein" (Brutality in Stone), Alexander Kluge demonstrates how Nazi architecture used dimensions of...

Alexander Kluge's tribute to Soviet master Dziga Vertov, displaying a collage of stills from Vertov's work on the screen of a white round TV set to...

"At the beginning of the 19th century there is no Chicago. There was a fort that was set on fire by Indians shortly thereafter. Later, the turbulent...

The story of a revolution in a Caribbean insular state.

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...

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),...

He is a music pirate, that is, he makes illegal recordings of underground music groups and sells them on the streets of New York. Cyd is the call...

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...

The central topic of the interview is the ancient concept of a necessary balance between the dead and the living, which also assumes the notion of a...

Heiner Müller was invited to a conference in Japan on the fate of opera in the 20th and 21st century. He talks about his flight over Siberia and...