Alexander Kluge Movies

Emotions and feelings should not be confused with sentimentality. Emotion is ancient and more powerful than any artistic expression. The film...

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

The third episodical film, after Deutschland im Herbst and Der Kandidat, in which notable German film makers reflect on the state of their country.

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

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

Triptych collage film regarding the history of revolution.

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

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

A poignant film essay about 'superfluous people' facing up to a moment of crisis in their lives.

The heart of the legs.

A collaborative essay film regarding Fritz Lang.

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...

A portrait of Manfred Pichota, played by Peter Berling, tells about the period in which he was the Führer's bodyguard.

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

Two-hour television documentary by Alexander Kluge and Meinhard Prill on the documentary filmmakers of the "Stuttgart school".

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

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...

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

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