Heiner Müller Movies

Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars is an in-depth documentation of Robert Wilson’s ambitious attempt to stage an epic, twelve-hour, multinational...

From August 1989 to March 1990, Heiner Müller and the Deutsches Theater ensemble develop “Hamlet/Maschine” amid East Germany’s...

On the run from her criminal Italian husband, a young French woman meets a German lover in West Berlin who offers her shelter but who also gets...

Documentary filmmaker Troller criss-crosses post-reunified “Transgermania” for a year, probing German identity through festivals...

Hamlet and Ophelia reckon with their doomed narratives against the backdrop of the similarly doomed pre-Wende Germany and 2020s United States. A...

A few months before his death, Müller responded to the keywords "breathing" and "smoking" with an anecdote that interprets breathing as an...

This film not only illuminates Heiner Müller's life and works, it is more about questioning the "Sphinx" of the East and its saying about the...

The conversation begins on the topic of Müller’s plans for new plays. Müller tells us that he has promised to write a libretto for...

Heiner Müller was invited to a conference in Japan on the fate of opera in the 20th and 21st century. He talks about his flight over Siberia and...

The horizon of this conversation is marked by Müller's personal memories, reflections about ongoing themes in his work, thoughts about his...

"The metaphor is cleverer than the author" (Lichtenberg), a "screen," an "instrument for bundling" (Müller), because "everything changes so...

Quoting from historian Tacitus' Annals, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller delve into the Roman Iron Age, talk about the modern style of Tacitus'...

Movie scenes, montages of images and text, as well as conversations between Alexander Kluge, playwright Heiner Müller and classicist Wilfried...

This portrait of Heiner Müller on the occasion of his 60th birthday is devoted for the most part to having Müller recount events and...

In this conversation, taking place shortly after the German reunification, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller discuss historical developments...

An issue of the magazine Kino 81, designed for the film department of WDR by staff of FILMKRITIK

Documentary by Thomas Heise filmed in East Berlin in 1987/88.

In order to justify interpreting the Oresteia as a representation of the "birth of democracy" (P. Stein), one has to repress a lot, for example the...

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...