Alexander Kluge Movies

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:...

Made with an eye to the autumn of 1980 when the German parliamentary elections took place, The Candidate examines Germany’s history past and...

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

A poignant film essay about 'superfluous people' facing up to a moment of crisis in their lives.

A meditation on the first 100 years of German cinema, featuring an assembly of German filmmakers.

Chamberlain, Mussolini and their aides attend a 1938 performance of Macbeth in Rome. This audience is itself made into the raw material of opera. The...

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

The machine is introduced into the thousand-year-old garden, as a feudal Japan is modernized. American-Japanese relations are traced in 19th-century...

Mrs. Blackburn, born in 1872, i.e. before the history of cinema began, is Alexander Kluge's grandmother. Portrait of this lady.

A short film by Alexander Kluge.

Straschek's film points to the gap between workers and intellectuals and describes the "difficulties of the revolution" in a biting and witty way.

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

A collaborative essay film regarding Fritz Lang.

Outer space in 2034 is run by greedy corporations in a rundown bureaucracy. Two astronauts, who are not very smart, make their way with shady...

A mockumentary about the life of the german musician and comedian Helge Schneider

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

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

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

In his experimental short film "Brutalität in Stein" (Brutality in Stone), Alexander Kluge demonstrates how Nazi architecture used dimensions of...