Alexander Kluge Movies

Alice Schneider redecorates her house.

Paul Klee and Walter Benjamin described an "angel of history." The heavy gale blowing in from paradise propels this angel into the future. The movie...

Homage to Anselm Kiefer.

Place and Time Without Reason Is Violence

There is no objectivity beyond desire. That is the main clause of the ancient poet Ovid ("Metamorphoses"). The creator of the twentieth-century...

Recordings of elephants in the wild and various graphs lain atop.

Lilo Wanders as Countess Orlovska in the Polish resistance in 1944. She kills German officers after having given these young men pleasure in 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...

Documentary short by Alexander Kluge about the role of teachers in history.

16 of Alexander Kluge's one-minute films.

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

How does one protect a US president? How dangerous is the situation when, for example, the president holds a speech in Tbilisi which could provoke...

The radiation, which upper level winds and rain from Chernobyl's explosion centre spread over Europe's furrows, consisted of various radioactive...

Kluge here presents a portrait of Friedrich the Great by means of quotations, film clips, historical images, and film documents. The program is a...

Wer immer hofft stirbt singend is a bagatelle bordering on the burlesque, in which Kluge combines (historical) visual material and nostalgic images...

A short by Alexander Kluge.

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

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.