Alexander Kluge Movies

A short by Alexander Kluge.

The clownish security chief of a West German business is obsessed with protecting his factory from fancied and real breaches, especially from groups...

In his experimental short film "Brutalität in Stein" (Brutality in Stone), Alexander Kluge demonstrates how Nazi architecture used dimensions of...

A young circus director ends up going into television after her father, a trapeze performer, dies in a circus accident.

Early short by Alexander Kluge.

Film by Alexander Kluge.

The heart of the legs.

Gabi Teichert, a history teacher, is unhappy with the way history is portrayed in textbooks and is looking for an alternative, more practical...

A meditation on the first 100 years of German cinema, featuring an assembly of German filmmakers.

An old building in Venice hosts an exhibition. A visitor walks through empty rooms discovering a fictionalized architectural space that functions...

Short science fiction film, a companion piece to Kluge's Der Große Verhau and Willi Tobler und der Untergang der 6. Flotte.

Documentary about the twin sister Jutta and Gisela Schmidt. In the late sixties the two women rebelled against middle class society as if they gave...

A short by Alexander Kluge.

Since German Classicism, it has become customary to translate extreme, emotional events into a ballad, a popular form of song. This ‘Balladen...

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...

A short by Alexander Kluge.

King Kong appears in various collages of a white cruise ship; meanwhile, a victory has been won and photographed in France in November 1918, and...

A short film by Alexander Kluge.

Documentary short by Alexander Kluge about the role of teachers in history.