Direction: Alexander Kluge

Direction Alexander Kluge

Cast Oksana Bulgakova · Dietmar Dath · Hans Magnus Enzensberger · Durs Grünbein

Direction Alexander Kluge

Cast Jutta Hoffmann · Armin Mueller-Stahl · Hans-Michael Rehberg · Peter Roggisch

Plot The last films for cinema by Alexander Kluge. Both tell about a dozen stories which complement one another by creating a context. The Blind Director: A young doctor feels that...

Direction Alexander Kluge

Cast Alexandra Kluge · Bion Steinborn · Sylvia Gartmann · Ursula Birichs

Direction Alexander Kluge

Cast Hannelore Hoger · Alexandra Kluge · Edgar M. Böhlke · Klaus Wennemann

Plot The Power of Emotion explains that emotion isn't to be confused with sentimentality. Emotion is ancient and more powerful than any art form. The film looks at young couples who...

Direction Stefan Aust · Axel Engstfeld · Alexander Kluge · Volker Schlöndorff

Cast Hans-Michael Rehberg · Axel-Torg Gros · Jürgen Prochnow · Bruno Ganz

Plot At the peak of the Cold War, the short-range missile crisis, neutron bombs could have potentially annihilated Central Europe. 300,000 protesters in Bonn. German Chancellor Schmidt resigns. Why make a...

Direction Alexander Kluge

Cast Heinz Schubert · Joachim Hackethal · Gert Günther Hoffmann · Vérénice Rudolph

Plot Ferdinand Rieche was a policeman, but found the legal constraints of that profession too stifling. He gets into the business of protecting manufacturing plants and outfits and trains his men...

Direction Alexander Kluge

Cast Hannelore Hoger · Alfred Edel · Wolf Hanne · Hans Heckel

Plot The Patriot is the kind of symbolic, avant-garde, historical and cultural drama that lends itself to several viewings in order to get at the basis of what, in this case,...

Direction Alexander Kluge · Edgar Reitz

Cast Dagmar Bödderich · Jutta Winkelmann · Alfred Edel · Norbert Kentrup

Plot Interweaving a number of disparate fictitious and documentary strands into a nightmarish portrait of life in the Federal Republic, Kluge's fascinating exploration of perception effectively consists of a plethora of...

Direction Alexander Kluge · Peter Schamoni

Cast Christian Marschall · Hans Clarin

Direction Alexander Kluge

Cast Karl Müller-Seegeberg

Plot 'Portrait', the first of several portrait films, recounts the fictionalised life of a police officer who loyally served no less than five very different German political regimes in what amounts...

Direction Alexander Kluge

Cast Alexandra Kluge · Hans Korte · Edith Kuntze-Pellogio · Palma Falck

Plot Anita G. is a young East German woman who comes to West Germany in hopes of a better life. With no real home and no job, she gets into trouble...

Direction Alf Brustellin · Hans Peter Cloos · Rainer Werner Fassbinder · Alexander Kluge

Cast Heinz Bennent · Wolf Biermann · Caroline Chaniolleau · Hildegard Friese

Plot Through documentary and fiction footage, the body of work of the New German Cinema offers a general view of Germany in the late 70's. A time marked by the left-wing...

Direction Alexander Kluge

Cast Hannelore Hoger · Sigi Graue · Alfred Edel · Bernd Höltz

Plot The film is made in a collage style, featuring newsreels and quotations from philosophers alongside the story of a failing circus whose owner, Leni (Hannelore Hoger), must decide whether her...

Direction Günter Lemmer · Alexander Kluge

Cast Sammy Drechsel · Uschi Glas · Rolf Illig

Plot A portait about repression of a pretended dictatorial state that the film uses as a excuse to criticize dictatorships from the 20th century.

Direction Alexander Kluge

Cast Marita Breuer · Rosel Zech · Sabine Wegner · André Jung

Plot "Vermischte Nachrichten" strings together vignettes of events taken from everyday newspaper headlines. Germans are shown in their reactions to World War II, minorities, and the elderly. A side plot follows...

Direction Alexander Kluge

Plot An amateur pilot is training for fleeing to the Kerguelen Islands in the Antarctic Ocean in case of a rocket war. An attempt at anticipating history.

Direction Alexander Kluge

Cast Peter Berling

Direction Alexander Kluge

Cast Alfred Edel · Helga Skalla · Hark Bohm · Kurt Jürgens

Plot Willi endeavours 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 he takes in...

Direction Alexander Kluge · Paul Kruntorad

Cast Mario Adorf

Plot On its surface, it's just a document of a race: cars circling around the track, spectators cheering, lap after lap of the same images repeated. The narration toys with ideas...

Direction Alexander Kluge · Edgar Reitz

Plot A film by songwriter Wolf Biermann lights the wishes and realities of a divided Germany. The images shows the confrontation between students and police on the streets.