Alexander Kluge Movies

The Europeans were shocked by the Asian gunmen running amok in the 19th century: The perpetrators acted like "misanthropists," killing friend and foe...

Homage to Anselm Kiefer.

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...

An essay from Edison's famous 1903 short film recording the execution by electricity of a tame elephant from Coney Island's Forepaugh Circus.

Since German Classicism, it has become customary to translate extreme, emotional events into a ballad, a popular form of song. This ‘Balladen...

Hermes Phettberg, born October 5, 1952 in Hollabrunn, Austria, was the assistant vicar with the archdiocese of Vienna until 1981 when he was...

A news magazine program on important aspects of the history of postrevolutionary Cuba, consisting of two documentary film sequences about Castro and...

Short philosophical film

On the one hand, the beyond-Tropicália surreal, wild, ecstatic universe of Khavn de la Cruz, the Philippines’ internationally most...

The "Berliner Ensemble" is a theater company closely connected to names like Bert Brecht, Heiner Müller and Claus Peymann. Hary Balzke is the...

A short by Alexander Kluge.

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...

The soul is an underwater entity. It expresses itself equally in Romeo and Juliet (by Vincenzo Bellini) and in the tragic fate of a deep-sea diver.

In his production of "Hamlet" at the Zurich Schauspielhaus, Christoph Schlingensief played the role of Fortinbras. This commander has the shortest...

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

At 91 years of age, Alexander Kluge is solidly regarded as a trailblazing figure in New German Cinema and the avant-garde. He remains active and...

Finale No. 1 in Bellini's Masterpiece Norma

Ads for defunct and foreign products are interspersed with newsreel and documentary footage. The result is a distanced view of the link between...

"Love is Passing Moment, Art is Eternal." This is the title of one of the earliest cinema melodramas from Russia. As early as the year of the...

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...