Alexander Kluge Movies

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

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

A talk with Alexander Kluge and Jean-Luc Godard.

Adorno is not just a theorist and philosopher, he was also a composer and student of Alban Berg in Vienna. The text of the short song goes:...

The machine is introduced into the thousand-year-old garden, as a feudal Japan is modernized. American-Japanese relations are traced in 19th-century...

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

A collaborative essay film regarding Fritz Lang.

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

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

Willi endeavors to survive in a world where annihilistic galactic battles rage, by taking a job at the centre of power. But it's the wrong side that...

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

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...

A short film by Alexander Kluge.

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

Mrs. Blackburn, born in 1872, i.e. before the history of cinema began, is Alexander Kluge's grandmother. Portrait of this lady.

Documentary about the current state of German cinema. Produced for German television.

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