Alexander Kluge Movies

A glass door prevents the occupation of a room.

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

A short about the German composer and royal bandmaster Joseph Martin Kraus, often nicknamed ‘the Swedish Mozart’. A young man is seen...

Documentary short about the stage play "Wessis in Weimar"

What is the difference between tenors, basses, sopranos, baritones, and altos in comparison to good and evil? The voice of the tenor cuts like a...

Alexander Kluge's 2012 Frankfurt lectures on poetics.

In this journal, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller talk about the dark side and the inevitability of democracy. Heiner Müller believes that...

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...

Spinoza being anti-authoritarian in the name of God/ That is the position of philosopher Spinoza

The point of departure for this discussion is the question of whether the collapse of the Soviet Union is dramatic material. Müller answers with...

A reading by Alexander Kluge.

Lilo Wanders as Countess Orlovska in the Polish resistance in 1944. She kills German officers after having given these young men pleasure in the...

Heiner Müller was invited to a conference in Japan on the fate of opera in the 20th and 21st century. He talks about his flight over Siberia and...

Since German Classicism, it has become customary to translate extreme, emotional events into a ballad, a popular form of song. This ‘Balladen...

Ads for defunct and foreign products are interspersed with newsreel and documentary footage. The result is a distanced view of the link between...

Love stories with unhappy endings, love stories with happy endings. From Romeo and Juliet in Frankfurt to the "Selfless Virgin in New York", from the...

Scenes from Nabucco (1842), I due foscari (1844), Macbeth (1847), Luisa Miller (1849), Il trovatore (1853), La traviata (1853), Les vépres...

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...

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...