Alexander Kluge Movies

Alexander Kluge reflects on the medieval Staufer dynasty and draws a line from Emperor Barbarossa to Operation Barbarossa.

A mockumentary about the life of the german musician and comedian Helge Schneider

Outer space in 2034 is run by greedy corporations in a rundown bureaucracy. Two astronauts, who are not very smart, make their way with shady...

In conversations with his friends and colleagues, among them Bernd Upnmoor, Helmut Herbst, Alexander Kluge, Klaus Wyborny, Daniel Kothenschulte and...

The metropolises in Mesopotamia (Uruk, Babylon), the city in Greek antiquity (Athens), the founding of Rome and the Celtic castle sites (oppida)...

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

An opera film by Alexander Kluge

Alice Schneider redecorates her house.

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

Alexander Kluge, the legendary German theorist and writer, student under Adorno and Horkheimer, a lawyer for the Frankfurter Schule, and paramount...

Citing Nietzsche, Müller describes the motive of the philologist as "greed," "simply wanting to have everything, grasp everything, know...

An homage to Francis Bacon and Georg Baselitz.

An homage to Max Horkheimer.

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

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

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

Collage film regarding astronomy.

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

Alexander Kluge's 2012 Frankfurt lectures on poetics.