Alexander Kluge Movies

In his production of "Hamlet" at the Zurich Schauspielhaus, Christoph Schlingensief played the role of Fortinbras. This commander has the shortest...

"At the beginning of the 19th century there is no Chicago. There was a fort that was set on fire by Indians shortly thereafter. Later, the turbulent...

When German soldiers threatened march into Kiev in the summer of 1941, the local motorized fire brigade was brought to safety. But when the expert...

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...

The Serpentine Gallery Program is a treasure trove of TV films. "He who hopes, dies singing" and other true stories.

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...

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

Destinies and emotion: An eagle kidnaps a child; a tiger saves a persecuted woman; a lieutenant robs a maiden of her innocence; a young lady must...

The film is both a representation of the installation elements (tiled mosaics of images projected on four walls and the ceiling of a gallery) and a...

Footage of Donald J. Trump visiting Vladimir Putin et al. overlain with circus performer animatronics.

A short by Alexander Kluge.

The story of the Argentine tango star Carlos Gardel is retold in a (computer graphic) theater in which his 1935 movie is projected. If the tango is...

A short by Alexander Kluge.

In his two books on globalization, Professor Stiglitz, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Economics, describes the non-synchronism and asymmetry of the...

A commentary on Aby Warburg’s Bilderatlas Mnemosyne, Panel B, Picture 9.

A reading by Alexander Kluge.

Fire brigades and rescue teams are the heroes of a disaster. They often save people's lives while risking their own. So it must have been terribly...

How does one protect a US president? How dangerous is the situation when, for example, the president holds a speech in Tbilisi which could provoke...

The world's only opera to trigger a revolution during its premiere is "The Mute Girl of Portici" by Daniel Francois Esprit Auber. The audience in...