Alexander Kluge Movies

  • 1988
    The African Lady, or Love with a Fatal Outcome

    The African Lady, or Love with a Fatal Outcome

    The African Lady, or Love with a Fatal Outcome

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    As storms cross over an orchestra and notes fly by, a ship is sinking. While one woman sleeps, another is rescued (in her sleep?). An opera guide is...

    The African Lady, or Love with a Fatal Outcome
  • 1999
    Snapshots for my Fiancé

    Snapshots for my Fiancé

    Snapshots for my Fiancé

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    Kraft durch Freude (strength through joy) in the war year 1942. In the war years, young German women had to contend with female rivals in the...

    Snapshots for my Fiancé
  • 1994
    The World is Not Bad, but Full

    The World is Not Bad, but Full

    The World is Not Bad, but Full

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    The central topic of the interview is the ancient concept of a necessary balance between the dead and the living, which also assumes the notion of a...

    The World is Not Bad, but Full
  • 2012
    Pretty Woman and other stories, a film with Alexander Kluge

    Pretty Woman and other stories, a film with Alexander Kluge

    Pretty Woman and other stories, a film with Alexander Kluge

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    In a conversation with Heiner Müller, Alexander Kluge asked him to say what kind of thing, animal, job, whatever... could Deutschland be. Heiner...

    Pretty Woman and other stories, a film with Alexander Kluge
  • 1996
    Heiner Müller in Time Flight

    Heiner Müller in Time Flight

    Heiner Müller in Time Flight

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    Müller describes Ovid's Metamorphoses, Golding's translation of which (1603) was one of Shakespeare's sources, as an encyclopedia of the Greek...

    Heiner Müller in Time Flight
  • 1995
    My Rendezvous with Death

    My Rendezvous with Death

    My Rendezvous with Death

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    The title of the interview is from a line in a poem written by an American about the battle of Ypern in World War I: “My rendezvous with Death...

    My Rendezvous with Death
  • 2018
    Happy Lamento

    Happy Lamento

    Happy Lamento

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    On the one hand, the beyond-Tropicália surreal, wild, ecstatic universe of Khavn de la Cruz, the Philippines’ internationally most...

    Happy Lamento
  • 2007
    Multiple Images for Five Projectors

    Multiple Images for Five Projectors

    Multiple Images for Five Projectors

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    The film is both a representation of the installation elements (tiled mosaics of images projected on four walls and the ceiling of a gallery) and a...

    Multiple Images for Five Projectors
  • 1993
    Rule a Great Country as You Would Fry Small Fish

    Rule a Great Country as You Would Fry Small Fish

    Rule a Great Country as You Would Fry Small Fish

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    Rule a Great Country as You Would Fry Small Fish
  • 1988
    Die Guillotine oder die Kategorie der Plötzlichkeit

    Die Guillotine oder die Kategorie der Plötzlichkeit

    Die Guillotine oder die Kategorie der Plötzlichkeit

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    Short philosophical film

    Die Guillotine oder die Kategorie der Plötzlichkeit
  • 1980
    The Candidate

    The Candidate

    The Candidate

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

    The Candidate
  • 2017
    Mehrfachbilder Vielfalt Fuenfalt ohne blaues Ende

    Mehrfachbilder Vielfalt Fuenfalt ohne blaues Ende

    Mehrfachbilder Vielfalt Fuenfalt ohne blaues Ende

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    Directed by Alexander Kluge

    Mehrfachbilder Vielfalt Fuenfalt ohne blaues Ende
  • 1970
    Love in a spacesuit

    Love in a spacesuit

    Love in a spacesuit

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    It's said that love is blind. The truth is: Love makes you perceptive. Love stories are fundamental stories. In this realm of experience, we can test...

    Love in a spacesuit
  • 2003
    A Woman Like a Volcano

    A Woman Like a Volcano

    A Woman Like a Volcano

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    Finale No. 1 in Bellini's Masterpiece Norma

    A Woman Like a Volcano
  • 2025
    Primitive Diversity

    Primitive Diversity

    Primitive Diversity

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    Thanks to technological developments, film has been through many transformations. Now, with the development of Artificial Intelligence another...

    Primitive Diversity
  • 2021
    Orphea

    Orphea

    Orphea

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

    Orphea
  • 1998

    "Of which we cannot speak we must sing!"

    "Of which we cannot speak we must sing!"

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    Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio: Why does this person speak and not sing? He longs to sing. Singing generally emerges when language becomes...

  • 2021
    Zirkus, Richter’s Tango

    Zirkus, Richter’s Tango

    Zirkus, Richter’s Tango

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    An homage to Hans Richter for the 35th anniversary of his death in 2021.

    Zirkus, Richter’s Tango
  • 1998
    The Mute Girl of Portici

    The Mute Girl of Portici

    The Mute Girl of Portici

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    The world's only opera to trigger a revolution during its premiere is "The Mute Girl of Portici" by Daniel Francois Esprit Auber. The audience in...

    The Mute Girl of Portici
  • 1963
    Protocol of a Revolution

    Protocol of a Revolution

    Protocol of a Revolution

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    The story of a revolution in a Caribbean insular state.

    Protocol of a Revolution