Alexander Kluge Movies

The explosion of a munitions train standing in the congested lines of hospital trains at the station in Hamont in Belgium caused a disaster in...

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...

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...

An opera film by Alexander Kluge

Alexander Kluge's 2012 Frankfurt lectures on poetics.

A reinvention of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, set in contemporary Manila as a rock musical.

The theme here is the rapid development from the beginning of the universe to the Gauls. At the half-way stage of this development, the Sahara became...

At 91 years of age, Alexander Kluge is solidly regarded as a trailblazing figure in New German Cinema and the avant-garde. He remains active and...

Müller describes Ovid's Metamorphoses, Golding's translation of which (1603) was one of Shakespeare's sources, as an encyclopedia of the Greek...

Aristocrats playing at the simple life are surprised by a revolution. Now, under emergency conditions, love relations develop with great power....

A classical steel and rolling mill looks like an alchemical workshop. The project of industrialization went far beyond its original goals with regard...

When the German Reich sent its declaration of war to Paris via telegram, it arrived completely garbled. It sounds like a Dada text. No one managed to...

In late antiquity, the religions were not yet rigidly opposed to each other, so that Christian apocrypha, the Babylonian Talmund and the Koran reveal...

How does Clausewitz define war? What does the US president mean when he talks of a new kind of war in the 21st century? What does history teach us...

Terrorism and skyscrapers confront expert fire fighters with severe problems. Is it possible to plan for future catastrophes when new buildings are...

The story of the Argentine tango star Carlos Gardel is retold in a (computer graphic) theater in which his 1935 movie is projected. If the tango is...