Alexander Kluge Movies

  • 1993
    Plowshare of Evil

    Plowshare of Evil

    Plowshare of Evil

    01993HD

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

    Plowshare of Evil
  • 2022
    Sergej Eisenstein Stages Alexander Newski (1938) and Wagner‘s Walküre (1940)

    Sergej Eisenstein Stages Alexander Newski (1938) and Wagner‘s Walküre (1940)

    Sergej Eisenstein Stages Alexander Newski (1938) and Wagner‘s Walküre (1940)

    02022HD

    Kluge compares with three screens with clips, stills, storyboards of the two works.

    Sergej Eisenstein Stages Alexander Newski (1938) and Wagner‘s Walküre (1940)
  • 1997
    The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot

    The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot

    The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot

    01997HD

    The point of departure for this discussion is the question of whether the collapse of the Soviet Union is dramatic material. Müller answers with...

    The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot
  • 2009
    Früchte des Vertrauens

    Früchte des Vertrauens

    Früchte des Vertrauens

    02009HD

    Film by Alexander Kluge.

    Früchte des Vertrauens
  • 1964
    Portrait d'une mise à l'épreuve

    Portrait d'une mise à l'épreuve

    Portrait d'une mise à l'épreuve

    01964HD

    Portrait d'une mise à l'épreuve
  • 2007
    Love Makes You Perceptive!

    Love Makes You Perceptive!

    Love Makes You Perceptive!

    02007HD

    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...

    Love Makes You Perceptive!
  • 1993
    Mind, Power, Castration

    Mind, Power, Castration

    Mind, Power, Castration

    01993HD

    Here Müller and Kluge explicitly address a theme that is latently present in many of their conversations: the relation of intellectuals to...

    Mind, Power, Castration
  • 1994
    Solange die Notenblätter reichen

    Solange die Notenblätter reichen

    Solange die Notenblätter reichen

    01994HD

    A reading by Alexander Kluge - First publication

    Solange die Notenblätter reichen
  • 2024
    Beginnings of Film Art

    Beginnings of Film Art

    Beginnings of Film Art

    02024HD

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

    Beginnings of Film Art
  • 1998

    "Of which we cannot speak we must sing!"

    "Of which we cannot speak we must sing!"

    01998HD

    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...

  • 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
  • 1999

    "With all the Wealth of my Needs"

    "With all the Wealth of my Needs"

    01999HD

    Hermes Phettberg, born October 5, 1952 in Hollabrunn, Austria, was the assistant vicar with the archdiocese of Vienna until 1981 when he was...

  • 2001
    True Love on the Front

    True Love on the Front

    True Love on the Front

    02001HD

    Lilo Wanders as Countess Orlovska in the Polish resistance in 1944. She kills German officers after having given these young men pleasure in the...

    True Love on the Front
  • 1970
    Reform Circus

    Reform Circus

    Reform Circus

    01970HD

    A 1970 TV discussion with Alexander Kluge.

    Reform Circus
  • 1992
    Frederick of Prussia

    Frederick of Prussia

    Frederick of Prussia

    01992HD

    Kluge here presents a portrait of Friedrich the Great by means of quotations, film clips, historical images, and film documents. The program is a...

    Frederick of Prussia
  • 2006
    La Habanera

    La Habanera

    La Habanera

    02006HD

    A short by Alexander Kluge.

    La Habanera
  • 1999
    Snapshots for my Fiancé

    Snapshots for my Fiancé

    Snapshots for my Fiancé

    01999HD

    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
  • 2000
    The Sahara Became Swampland

    The Sahara Became Swampland

    The Sahara Became Swampland

    02000HD

    The theme here is the rapid development from the beginning of the universe to the Gauls. At the half-way stage of this development, the Sahara became...

    The Sahara Became Swampland
  • 2001
    The Flexible Entrepreneur

    The Flexible Entrepreneur

    The Flexible Entrepreneur

    02001HD

    As indicated in the subtitle Tiehrmehlfabrikant Dr. Fred Eicke weiss Auswege, this work centres on the animal food producer Fred Eicke (a part played...

    The Flexible Entrepreneur
  • 2019
    Veränderung ist das Salz des Vergnügens

    Veränderung ist das Salz des Vergnügens

    Veränderung ist das Salz des Vergnügens

    02019HD

    Documentary short about the stage play "Wessis in Weimar"

    Veränderung ist das Salz des Vergnügens