Alexander Kluge Movies

  • 2022
    Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors

    Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors

    Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors

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    From the 1950s onwards, Erika and Ulrich Gregor brought countless film historical milestones to Berlin and shaped cinema discourse in post-war...

    Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
  • 2008
    Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers

    Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers

    Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers

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    Documentary about filmmakers of the New German Cinema who were members of the legendary Filmverlag für Autoren (Film Publishing House for...

    Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
  • 2020
    The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 1941

    The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 1941

    The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 1941

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    Adorno is not just a theorist and philosopher, he was also a composer and student of Alban Berg in Vienna. The text of the short song goes:...

    The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 1941
  • 2026
    Auf Messers Schneide: das Jahr 1929

    Auf Messers Schneide: das Jahr 1929

    Auf Messers Schneide: das Jahr 1929

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    Auf Messers Schneide: das Jahr 1929
  • 1968
    E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher

    E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher

    E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher

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

    E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher
  • 1983
    The Power of Emotion

    The Power of Emotion

    The Power of Emotion

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

    The Power of Emotion
  • 1970
    The Indomitable Leni Peickert

    The Indomitable Leni Peickert

    The Indomitable Leni Peickert

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    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...

    The Indomitable Leni Peickert
  • 1982
    War and Peace

    War and Peace

    War and Peace

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    The third episodic film, after Deutschland im Herbst and Der Kandidat, in which notable German filmmakers reflect on the state of their country. A...

    War and Peace
  • 2020
    The Leaks of Venice

    The Leaks of Venice

    The Leaks of Venice

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

    The Leaks of Venice
  • 1965
    ...Geist und ein wenig Glück

    ...Geist und ein wenig Glück

    ...Geist und ein wenig Glück

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    Documentary about the current state of German cinema. Produced for German television.

    ...Geist und ein wenig Glück
  • 1967
    Yesterday Girl

    Yesterday Girl

    Yesterday Girl

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    A young German woman searches for happiness, liberation, and independence in the illusive wake of a transformative national recovery.

    Yesterday Girl
  • 2026
    Heterotopie der Oper

    Heterotopie der Oper

    Heterotopie der Oper

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    Heterotopie der Oper
  • 2001
    Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen!

    Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen!

    Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen!

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    A talk with Alexander Kluge and Jean-Luc Godard.

    Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen!
  • 1979
    The Patriotic Woman

    The Patriotic Woman

    The Patriotic Woman

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    Gabi Teichert, a history teacher, is unhappy with the way history is portrayed in textbooks and is looking for an alternative, more practical...

    The Patriotic Woman
  • 1999
    Spaceflight as an Internal Experience

    Spaceflight as an Internal Experience

    Spaceflight as an Internal Experience

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    Short science fiction film, a companion piece to Kluge's Der Große Verhau and Willi Tobler und der Untergang der 6. Flotte.

    Spaceflight as an Internal Experience
  • 2018
    We Philosophers from Eve’s Rib

    We Philosophers from Eve’s Rib

    We Philosophers from Eve’s Rib

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    Collage film regarding astronomy.

    We Philosophers from Eve’s Rib
  • 1983
    Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour

    Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour

    Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour

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    The Cold War is peaking again in divided Germany in the early 1980s. How to deal with the upcoming nuclear annihilation shows this Alexander Kluge...

    Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour
  • 1988
    The Eiffel Tower, King Kong and the White Woman

    The Eiffel Tower, King Kong and the White Woman

    The Eiffel Tower, King Kong and the White Woman

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    King Kong appears in various collages of a white cruise ship; meanwhile, a victory has been won and photographed in France in November 1918, and...

    The Eiffel Tower, King Kong and the White Woman
  • 1976
    Strongman Ferdinand

    Strongman Ferdinand

    Strongman Ferdinand

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

    Strongman Ferdinand
  • 1970
    Finite and Infinite Games

    Finite and Infinite Games

    Finite and Infinite Games

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    Alexander Kluge, the legendary German theorist and writer, student under Adorno and Horkheimer, a lawyer for the Frankfurter Schule, and paramount...

    Finite and Infinite Games