Alexander Kluge Movies

"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...

Short science fiction film, a companion piece to Kluge's Der Große Verhau and Willi Tobler und der Untergang der 6. Flotte.

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

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

Documentary by Wilhelm Roth about the state of affairs of the Young German Cinema.

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

A study of Alexander Kluge that also emulates his technique of seeking and linking. Kluge reads aloud, Kluge recounts, including stories from his...

The heart of the legs.

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...

Alexander Kluge's 2012 Frankfurt lectures on poetics.

Roswitha runs an illegal abortion clinic in Frankfurt to support her student husband and children. When she is forced to close her practice she...

Gabi Teichert, a history teacher, is unhappy with the way history is portrayed in textbooks and is looking for an alternative, more practical...

A young circus director ends up going into television after her father, a trapeze performer, dies in a circus accident.

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

Kluge’s short-film starring his sister/muse Alexandra.

A collaborative essay film regarding Fritz Lang.

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

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