Alexander Kluge Movies

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

Seetha and Harold Berger are rescued from the desert by a caravan and brought to a small village. However, the greedy owner of the house where they...

Nine fictitious documentaries and films reflect the mood of late 1970s Germany, particularly the two-month period in 1977 when a businessman was...

"Wings Of Desire" and "Buena Vista Social Club", "Paris, Texas" and "The State Of Things": Wim Wenders is considered one of the pioneers of New...

Documentary about the twin sister Jutta and Gisela Schmidt. In the late sixties the two women rebelled against middle class society as if they gave...

From the 1950s onwards, Erika and Ulrich Gregor brought countless film historical milestones to Berlin and shaped cinema discourse in post-war...

Two women during WW2 living in a Hunsrück village embark on a trip to Vienna.

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

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

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...

Emotions and feelings should not be confused with sentimentality. Emotion is ancient and more powerful than any artistic expression. The film...

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

Documentary about filmmakers of the New German Cinema who were members of the legendary Filmverlag für Autoren (Film Publishing House for...

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

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

Alexander Kluge’s News from Ideological Antiquity begins with Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein’s ambitious but unrealized plan to...

Kluge’s short-film starring his sister/muse Alexandra.

A young German woman searches for happiness, liberation, and independence in the illusive wake of a transformative national recovery.