Alexander Kluge Movies

The Poetic Power of Theory: Aristotle, Heidegger, Spinoza, Marx, Nietzsche, Kant ("What Does it Mean to Orient Oneself in Thinking?"). Seven examples...

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...

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

Quoting from historian Tacitus' Annals, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller delve into the Roman Iron Age, talk about the modern style of Tacitus'...

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...

Short science fiction film with footage from Willi Tobler und der Untergang der 6. Flotte.

A reinvention of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, set in contemporary Manila as a rock musical.

A collaborative essay film regarding Fritz Lang.

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

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 documents the preparations for an exhibition on the Staufer dynasty.

Directed by Alexander Kluge

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

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

A reference to the song of the same name, which carries the motif of "La Paloma" (the dove) and can be traced back to an episode that occurred in 492...

In conversations with his friends and colleagues, among them Bernd Upnmoor, Helmut Herbst, Alexander Kluge, Klaus Wyborny, Daniel Kothenschulte and...

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

A news documentary about the 1966 Venice Film Festival.