Alexander Kluge Movies

Documentary by Wilhelm Roth about the state of affairs of the Young German Cinema.

A commentary on Aby Warburg’s Bilderatlas Mnemosyne, Panel B, Picture 9.

A monkey reminisces about King Kong

At the time of the conversation Heiner Müller was the president of the Academy of Arts - East. At the beginning he describes his daily routine...

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

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

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

A short about the German composer and royal bandmaster Joseph Martin Kraus, often nicknamed ‘the Swedish Mozart’. A young man is seen...

A short film by Alexander Kluge.

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

A short film by Alexander Kluge.

The woman in the battlefield.

Wer immer hofft stirbt singend is a bagatelle bordering on the burlesque, in which Kluge combines (historical) visual material and nostalgic images...

A 1970 TV discussion with Alexander Kluge.

An homage to Hans Richter for the 35th anniversary of his death in 2021.

Early Alexander Kluge short film that follows the career of a German policeman from World War I into the 1960s.

A drama that strings together vignettes of events taken from everyday newspaper headlines. Germans are shown in their reactions to World War II,...

The heart of the legs.