Alexander Kluge Movies

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

Combining fictional and documentary modes, the film takes a critical stance toward Frankfurt's public sphere and urban redevelopment. Despite the...

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...

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

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

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

Mrs. Blackburn, born in 1872, i.e. before the history of cinema began, is Alexander Kluge's grandmother. Portrait of this lady.

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

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

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...

A collaborative essay film regarding Fritz Lang.

The heart of the legs.

Alexander Kluge - October 22 2016

An old building in Venice hosts an exhibition. A visitor walks through empty rooms discovering a fictionalized architectural space that functions...

The Indomitable Leni Peickert is a loose, half-hour sequel to Alexander Kluge's second feature film, Artists in the Big Top: Perplexed. This shorter...

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

A mockumentary about the life of the german musician and comedian Helge Schneider

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