Alexander Kluge Movies

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

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

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...

A short film by Alexander Kluge.

With the painter Gerhard Richter.

Early short by Alexander Kluge.

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...

At the time of the conversation Heiner Müller was the president of the Academy of Arts - East. At the beginning he describes his daily routine...

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

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...

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

Short collage film regarding the history of philosophy.

A 1970 TV discussion with Alexander Kluge.

An opera film by Alexander Kluge

Triptych collage film regarding the history of revolution.

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

A reference to the song of the same name, which carries the motif of "La Paloma" (the dove) and can be traced back to an episode that occurred in 492...

Wer immer hofft stirbt singend is a bagatelle bordering on the burlesque, in which Kluge combines (historical) visual material and nostalgic images...

Willi endeavors to survive in a world where annihilistic galactic battles rage, by taking a job at the centre of power. But it's the wrong side that...

Documentary short about the stage play "Wessis in Weimar"