Alexander Kluge Movies

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...

Triptych collage film regarding the history of revolution.

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

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...

An homage to Francis Bacon and Georg Baselitz.

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

With the painter Gerhard Richter.

The heart of the legs.

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...

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

A short about the German composer and royal bandmaster Joseph Martin Kraus, often nicknamed ‘the Swedish Mozart’. A young man is seen...

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

An homage to Max Horkheimer.

Homage to Anselm Kiefer.

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...