Alexander Kluge Movies

A study of Alexander Kluge that also emulates his technique of seeking and linking. Kluge reads aloud, Kluge recounts, including stories from his...

For over half a century, the filmmaker Edgar Reitz, one of the signatories of the Oberhausen Manifesto and a pioneer of epic film narration, has...

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

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

A drama that strings together vignettes of events taken from everyday newspaper headlines. Germans are shown in their reactions to World War II,...

Alexander Kluge’s News from Ideological Antiquity begins with Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein’s ambitious but unrealized plan to...

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

Roswitha runs an illegal abortion clinic in Frankfurt to support her student husband and children. When she is forced to close her practice she...

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

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

The heart of the legs.

Dusk at a construction site situated at the foot of where the Twin Towers once stood: "Public wounds heal slowly."

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...

Early Alexander Kluge short film that follows the career of a German policeman from World War I into the 1960s.

A short film by Alexander Kluge.

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

Documentary aired on German television in 1989. Includes interviews with Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Alexander Kluge and more.

Strolling through France (Roanne, Nice and Carcassonne) with some excursions abroad (Munich, Montreal, New York).