Alexander Kluge Movies

The Europeans were shocked by the Asian gunmen running amok in the 19th century: The perpetrators acted like "misanthropists," killing friend and foe...

Song from 1932: "From the North Pole to the South Pole, it's just a short hop." The case of a famous pilot's suicide. A grand total of twelve musical...

A new version of Nipp and Tuck (Del Ruth / Sennett, 1923)

Fred Peickert lost his job in one of the new eastern German states. Ever since, he's been in a holding pattern, waiting for vocational...

The playwright Heiner Müller had a favorite book in his final year of life: "Post-Heroic Management" by Dirk Baecker. What does "post-heroic"...

Love stories with unhappy endings, love stories with happy endings. From Romeo and Juliet in Frankfurt to the "Selfless Virgin in New York", from the...

In his two books on globalization, Professor Stiglitz, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Economics, describes the non-synchronism and asymmetry of the...

The death of the crew of Russia's modern nuclear submarine Kursk reminds the public of previous fatal disasters. There have been collisions between...

We see the celebration of New Year's Eve with fireworks in 1988, repeated exactly in 1923, in 1908, and in munitions explosions in 1812, as well as...

Oiran were the beautiful and educated courtesans of Edo, the capital of the Japanses Shogun; the city which is now called Tokyo. In her feature film...

A short film by Alexander Kluge.

Camp administrators at the concentration camps of the Third Reich circulated coupons and "bank" notes. A group of officers within the SS believed...

A reading by Alexander Kluge.

For those who take part in motor racing, it is incomprehensible that, for example, horse riding is a medal sport at the Olympics, but for racing...

Video #1 of Finite Rants, a series of eight visual essays commissioned by Fondazione Prada and curated by Luigi Alberto Cippini and Niccolò...

Film by Alexander Kluge.

Citing Nietzsche, Müller defines intellectuals as the "ploughshares of evil," whose task it is "to create chaos, to destroy conceptions of...

A short film by Alexander Kluge.