Alexander Kluge Movies

Seetha and Harold Berger are rescued from the desert by a caravan and brought to a small village. However, the greedy owner of the house where they...

In Eschnapur, a German architect saves the life of the Maharajah's favorite temple dancer and becomes Maharajah's friend but their friendship is...

Germany in Autumn does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of...

A poignant film essay about 'superfluous people' facing up to a moment of crisis in their lives.

"Wings Of Desire" and "Buena Vista Social Club", "Paris, Texas" and "The State Of Things": Wim Wenders is considered one of the pioneers of New...

Emotions and feelings should not be confused with sentimentality. Emotion is ancient and more powerful than any artistic expression. The film...

Roswitha runs an illegal abortion clinic in Frankfurt to support her student husband and children. When she is forced to close her practice she...

From the 1950s onwards, Erika and Ulrich Gregor brought countless film historical milestones to Berlin and shaped cinema discourse in post-war...

A young German woman searches for happiness, liberation, and independence in the illusive wake of a transformative national recovery.

For over half a century, the filmmaker Edgar Reitz, one of the signatories of the Oberhausen Manifesto and a pioneer of epic film narration, has...

Two-hour television documentary by Alexander Kluge and Meinhard Prill on the documentary filmmakers of the "Stuttgart school".

The Indomitable Leni Peickert is a loose, half-hour sequel to Alexander Kluge's second feature film, Artists in the Big Top: Perplexed. This shorter...

The third episodical film, after Deutschland im Herbst and Der Kandidat, in which notable German film makers reflect on the state of their country.

Made with an eye to the autumn of 1980 when the German parliamentary elections took place, The Candidate examines Germany’s history past and...

Two women during WW2 living in a Hunsrück village embark on a trip to Vienna.

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

The Poetic Power of Theory: Aristotle, Heidegger, Spinoza, Marx, Nietzsche, Kant ("What Does it Mean to Orient Oneself in Thinking?"). Seven examples...

A talk with Alexander Kluge and Jean-Luc Godard.

16 of Alexander Kluge's one-minute films.