Alexander Kluge Movies

For over half a century, the filmmaker Edgar Reitz, one of the signatories of the Oberhausen Manifesto and a pioneer of epic film narration, has...

Alexander Kluge follows his father, a doctor, in his daily activity.

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

A drama that strings together vignettes of events taken from everyday newspaper headlines. Germans are shown in their reactions to World War II,...

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

Kluge compares with three screens with clips, stills, storyboards of the two works.

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...

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

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

16 of Alexander Kluge's one-minute films.

Combining fictional and documentary modes, the film takes a critical stance toward Frankfurt's public sphere and urban redevelopment. Despite the...

On Love’s Struggle through the Millennia. A chat between Alexander Kluge and Miriam Hansen through the prism of Griffith's INTOLERANCE.

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

A portrait of Manfred Pichota, played by Peter Berling, tells about the period in which he was the Führer's bodyguard.

The woman in the battlefield.

With the painter Gerhard Richter.

A collaborative essay film regarding Fritz Lang.

Alexander Kluge documents the preparations for an exhibition on the Staufer dynasty.