Alexander Kluge Movies

The emotion and feelings should not be confused with sentimentality. Emotion is ancient and more powerful than any artistic expression. The film...

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

In An Opera of the World, Malian scholar and filmmaker Manthia Diawara reflects upon the refugee crisis and the relationship between Europe and...

Alexander Kluge documents the preparations for an exhibition on the Staufer dynasty.

Documentary about the twin sister Jutta and Gisela Schmidt. In the late sixties the two women rebelled against middle class society as if they gave...

Directed by Alexander Kluge

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...

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A commentary on Aby Warburg’s Bilderatlas Mnemosyne, Panel B, Picture 9.

Citing Nietzsche, Müller defines intellectuals as the "ploughshares of evil," whose task it is "to create chaos, to destroy conceptions of...

Alexander Kluge reflects on Eadweard Muybridge's work and the first modern Olympics.

A portrait of Manfred Pichota, played by Peter Berling, tells about the period in which he was the Führer's bodyguard.

A glass door prevents the occupation of a room.

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...

With the painter Gerhard Richter.

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

Homage to Anselm Kiefer.