Alexander Kluge Movies

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

Short collage film regarding the history of philosophy.

The horizon of this conversation is marked by Müller's personal memories, reflections about ongoing themes in his work, thoughts about his...

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

With pictures by James Ensor and Alexander Kluge. The opera The Mute Girl of Portici tells the story of a young mute woman in Naples who is seduced...

Peter Berling on Fassbinder and the RAF movement "They killed our friends..."

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...

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

Finale No. 1 in Bellini's Masterpiece Norma

A short by Alexander Kluge.

Destinies and emotion: An eagle kidnaps a child; a tiger saves a persecuted woman; a lieutenant robs a maiden of her innocence; a young lady must...

Kluge compares with three screens with clips, stills, storyboards of the two works.

In this conversation, taking place shortly after the German reunification, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller discuss historical developments...

The title of the interview is from a line in a poem written by an American about the battle of Ypern in World War I: “My rendezvous with Death...

Car racing, speed, the spectators’ fascination, the signs of an era made of machines and competition. But “victory” is not the real...

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...

Irm Hermann recalls the funeral of Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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

"The metaphor is cleverer than the author" (Lichtenberg), a "screen," an "instrument for bundling" (Müller), because "everything changes so...

Alexander Kluge's avant-garde hommage to Manoel de Oliveira's surreal opera-musical film "The Cannibals".