Heiner Müller Movies
- 1997
The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot
The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot01997HD
The point of departure for this discussion is the question of whether the collapse of the Soviet Union is dramatic material. Müller answers with...
- 1993
Anti-Opera
Anti-Opera01993HD
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...
- 1989
Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath
Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath01989HD
In 1989, Heiner Müller staged an unabridged seven-and-a-half hour Hamlet, because in the process of German reunification "a leave-taking from...
- 1996
He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded
He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded01996HD
A few months before his death, Müller responded to the keywords "breathing" and "smoking" with an anecdote that interprets breathing as an...
- 1992
Frederick of Prussia
Frederick of Prussia01992HD
Kluge here presents a portrait of Friedrich the Great by means of quotations, film clips, historical images, and film documents. The program is a...
- 1988
Keine Hand wäscht die Andere
Keine Hand wäscht die Andere01988HD
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...
- 2012
Rigor Was His Mark of Quality
Rigor Was His Mark of Quality02012HD
Heiner Müller defines Stoicism as an attempt to deal with anarchy. For him, Erich Honecker is an example for "forced stoicism". Müller...
- 1998
Mão Morta Müller no Hotel Hessischer Hof
Mão Morta Müller no Hotel Hessischer Hof01998HD
Documentary on Mão Morta's three sole concerts.
- 1995
Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day
Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day01995HD
The horizon of this conversation is marked by Müller's personal memories, reflections about ongoing themes in his work, thoughts about his...
- 1995
The Voice of the Playwright
The Voice of the Playwright01995HD
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...
- 1995
Omnivore Democracy
Omnivore Democracy01995HD
In this journal, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller talk about the dark side and the inevitability of democracy. Heiner Müller believes that...
- 1993
The Last of the Mohicans
The Last of the Mohicans01993HD
A news magazine program on important aspects of the history of postrevolutionary Cuba, consisting of two documentary film sequences about Castro and...
- 1989
Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday
Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday01989HD
This portrait of Heiner Müller on the occasion of his 60th birthday is devoted for the most part to having Müller recount events and...
- 1996
Heiner Müller in Time Flight
Heiner Müller in Time Flight01996HD
Müller describes Ovid's Metamorphoses, Golding's translation of which (1603) was one of Shakespeare's sources, as an encyclopedia of the Greek...
- 1993
The Death of Seneca
The Death of Seneca01993HD
Citing Nietzsche, Müller describes the motive of the philologist as "greed," "simply wanting to have everything, grasp everything, know...
- 1970
Hamletmachine
Hamletmachine01970HD
A filmed Musical adaption of Heiner Müller's 1977 play HAMLETMACHINE preformed at The Castillo Theater in 2002.
- 1996
Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management
Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management01996HD
The discussion begins with the parable of a frog in boiling water. It comes from the book "Post-heroic Management: A Manual" by Dirk Baecker, which...