Alexander Kluge Movies

65 mm is the technical format with the best qualifications for classic cinema. The images and the history of cinema shift (as if the film were a...

A reading by Alexander Kluge.

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

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...

Short philosophical film

A 1970 TV discussion with Alexander Kluge.

A short film by Alexander Kluge.

The playwright Heiner Müller had a favorite book in his final year of life: "Post-Heroic Management" by Dirk Baecker. What does "post-heroic"...

A reading by Alexander Kluge.

A reading by Alexander Kluge.

Oiran were the beautiful and educated courtesans of Edo, the capital of the Japanses Shogun; the city which is now called Tokyo. In her feature film...

Mata Hari and the Danish baroness Carla Jesse are among the most powerful women in the history of espionage. Carla Jesse's method was the kiss of...

We see the celebration of New Year's Eve with fireworks in 1988, repeated exactly in 1923, in 1908, and in munitions explosions in 1812, as well as...

In his production of "Hamlet" at the Zurich Schauspielhaus, Christoph Schlingensief played the role of Fortinbras. This commander has the shortest...

Opera stars face daunting competitive pressure. It's thus not unusual for some of the best among them to seek to improve their performance by...

Kraft durch Freude (strength through joy) in the war year 1942. In the war years, young German women had to contend with female rivals in the...

Nobel Prize winner Prof. Dr. Eric R. Kandel from Columbia University, New York, is considered the "Einstein of brain research". In the year 2000 he...

It's said that love is blind. The truth is: Love makes you perceptive. Love stories are fundamental stories. In this realm of experience, we can test...

For those who take part in motor racing, it is incomprehensible that, for example, horse riding is a medal sport at the Olympics, but for racing...

The master Russian director Sergei Eisenstein planned in 1928 to make a film about Das Kapital by Marx. Is the "political economy" made up of...