Alexander Kluge Movies

  • 2001
    Dance on the Volcano

    Dance on the Volcano

    Dance on the Volcano

    02001HD

    Aristocrats playing at the simple life are surprised by a revolution. Now, under emergency conditions, love relations develop with great power....

    Dance on the Volcano
  • 2026
    Heterotopie der Oper

    Heterotopie der Oper

    Heterotopie der Oper

    02026HD

    Heterotopie der Oper
  • 1970
    Finite and Infinite Games

    Finite and Infinite Games

    Finite and Infinite Games

    01970HD

    Alexander Kluge, the legendary German theorist and writer, student under Adorno and Horkheimer, a lawyer for the Frankfurter Schule, and paramount...

    Finite and Infinite Games
  • 2011
    Nuits transparentes

    Nuits transparentes

    Nuits transparentes

    02011HD

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

    Nuits transparentes
  • 2024
    Max Horkheimer – Philosopher and Sociologist

    Max Horkheimer – Philosopher and Sociologist

    Max Horkheimer – Philosopher and Sociologist

    02024HD

    An homage to Max Horkheimer.

    Max Horkheimer – Philosopher and Sociologist
  • 2002
    Nur Gott hat zugesehen

    Nur Gott hat zugesehen

    Nur Gott hat zugesehen

    02002HD

    Murder ballads, ballads, and newspaper images tell humane and terrible stories. Dr. Ulrike Spengler, who compiled the Proust ABC, reports on "the...

    Nur Gott hat zugesehen
  • 2011
    Als die Himmel noch miteinander sprachen

    Als die Himmel noch miteinander sprachen

    Als die Himmel noch miteinander sprachen

    02011HD

    In late antiquity, the religions were not yet rigidly opposed to each other, so that Christian apocrypha, the Babylonian Talmund and the Koran reveal...

    Als die Himmel noch miteinander sprachen
  • 1989
    Paper Tiger Television, New York

    Paper Tiger Television, New York

    Paper Tiger Television, New York

    61989HD

    Film about the Paper Tiger Television non-profit, low-budget public access television program and open media collective based in New York City.

    Paper Tiger Television, New York
  • 2019
    Bodenhaftung, Hautnähe, Lot zum Erdmittelpunkt

    Bodenhaftung, Hautnähe, Lot zum Erdmittelpunkt

    Bodenhaftung, Hautnähe, Lot zum Erdmittelpunkt

    02019HD

    Recordings of elephants in the wild and various graphs lain atop.

    Bodenhaftung, Hautnähe, Lot zum Erdmittelpunkt
  • 1994
    Woher stammt das Lied

    Woher stammt das Lied "Die Fahne hoch"?

    Woher stammt das Lied "Die Fahne hoch"?

    01994HD

    Originally the marching song "The Flag on High," which had been part of Germany's national anthem, had an entirely different text. The song actually...

    Woher stammt das Lied
  • 2012
    Rigor Was His Mark of Quality

    Rigor Was His Mark of Quality

    Rigor Was His Mark of Quality

    02012HD

    Heiner Müller defines Stoicism as an attempt to deal with anarchy. For him, Erich Honecker is an example for "forced stoicism". Müller...

    Rigor Was His Mark of Quality
  • 1997
    High on Work

    High on Work

    High on Work

    01997HD

    A classical steel and rolling mill looks like an alchemical workshop. The project of industrialization went far beyond its original goals with regard...

    High on Work
  • 2008
    Sense below the Sense

    Sense below the Sense

    Sense below the Sense

    02008HD

    Not unlike reindeer there was something in these people - yet not what they wanted or intended - that was more intelligent than them. There is no...

    Sense below the Sense
  • 1970
    Reform Circus

    Reform Circus

    Reform Circus

    01970HD

    A 1970 TV discussion with Alexander Kluge.

    Reform Circus
  • 2007

    "The Burning Giraffe"

    "The Burning Giraffe"

    02007HD

    Durs Grünbein's "Moscow Menagerie" is about a rare Saiga antelope, a female cheetah, a Mafioso named "Ironhand", the on-duty cobras...

  • 2006
    The Trickiness of Peace Treaties

    The Trickiness of Peace Treaties

    The Trickiness of Peace Treaties

    02006HD

    A short by Alexander Kluge.

    The Trickiness of Peace Treaties
  • 1995
    The Voice of the Playwright

    The Voice of the Playwright

    The Voice of the Playwright

    01995HD

    One of Müllers's vocal cords was paralyzed as a result of a life-saving radical operation (1995). At the beginning of the discussion Müller...

    The Voice of the Playwright
  • 2017
    Reason is a Balancing Animal

    Reason is a Balancing Animal

    Reason is a Balancing Animal

    02017HD

    Short collage film regarding the history of philosophy.

    Reason is a Balancing Animal
  • 2007
    The Magic of the Darkened Soul

    The Magic of the Darkened Soul

    The Magic of the Darkened Soul

    02007HD

    The Magic of the Darkened Soul
  • 1999
    My Love is Deeper than the Sea

    My Love is Deeper than the Sea

    My Love is Deeper than the Sea

    01999HD

    The soul is an underwater entity. It expresses itself equally in Romeo and Juliet (by Vincenzo Bellini) and in the tragic fate of a deep-sea diver.

    My Love is Deeper than the Sea