Heiner Müller Movies

Imaged manifestations revealed within a finite geographic space, limited by the insignificant actions of their characters.

On the run from her criminal Italian husband, a young French woman meets a German lover in West Berlin who offers her shelter but who also gets...

Documentary by Thomas Heise filmed in East Berlin in 1987/88.

Sandra Hüller plays Hamlet, Gina Haller, a figure that was composed of Ophelia and Horatio. Johan Simons staged the Bochum performance.

An issue of the magazine Kino 81, designed for the film department of WDR by staff of FILMKRITIK

A series of poems.

Hamlet and Ophelia reckon with their doomed narratives. Adapted from the 1977 East German Heiner Müller play of the same name.

Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars is an in-depth documentation of Robert Wilson’s ambitious attempt to stage an epic, twelve-hour, multinational...

From August 1989 to March 1990, Heiner Müller and the Deutsches Theater ensemble develop “Hamlet/Maschine” amid East Germany’s...

Documentary on Mão Morta's three sole concerts.

This film not only illuminates Heiner Müller's life and works, it is more about questioning the "Sphinx" of the East and its saying about the...

Movie scenes, montages of images and text, as well as conversations between Alexander Kluge, playwright Heiner Müller and classicist Wilfried...

In order to justify interpreting the Oresteia as a representation of the "birth of democracy" (P. Stein), one has to repress a lot, for example the...

Müller describes Ovid's Metamorphoses, Golding's translation of which (1603) was one of Shakespeare's sources, as an encyclopedia of the Greek...

This portrait of Heiner Müller on the occasion of his 60th birthday is devoted for the most part to having Müller recount events and...

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

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

This "music magazine" is a montage of visually alienated historical film clips of tanks and soldiers (First and Second World War), pictorial...

A filmed Musical adaption of Heiner Müller's 1977 play HAMLETMACHINE preformed at The Castillo Theater in 2002.

Heiner Müller defines Stoicism as an attempt to deal with anarchy. For him, Erich Honecker is an example for "forced stoicism". Müller...