The Day Is Nigh
The Day Is Nigh
4.5/101997HD
Short science fiction film with footage from Willi Tobler und der Untergang der 6. Flotte.
Alexander Kluge
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Strongman Ferdinand
Strongman Ferdinand6/101976HDThe clownish security chief of a West German business is obsessed with protecting his factory from fancied and real breaches, especially from groups...
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The Big Mess
The Big Mess6.9/101971HDOuter space in 2034 is run by greedy corporations in a rundown bureaucracy. Two astronauts, who are not very smart, make their way with shady...
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The Patriotic Woman
The Patriotic Woman6.7/101979HDGabi Teichert, a history teacher, is unhappy with the way history is portrayed in textbooks and is looking for an alternative, more practical...
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The Heart and the Legs
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“Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History”
“Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History”0/101991HDIn this conversation, taking place shortly after the German reunification, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller discuss historical developments...
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The Candidate
The Candidate5/101980HDMade with an eye to the autumn of 1980 when the German parliamentary elections took place, The Candidate examines Germany’s history past and...
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Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet
Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet5.2/101972HDWilli endeavors 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...
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The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time
The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time5.8/101985HDA poignant film essay about 'superfluous people' facing up to a moment of crisis in their lives.
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News from Ideological Antiquity: Marx – Eisenstein – The Capital
News from Ideological Antiquity: Marx – Eisenstein – The Capital6.8/102008HDAlexander Kluge’s News from Ideological Antiquity begins with Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein’s ambitious but unrealized plan to...
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The Leaks of Venice
The Leaks of Venice0/102020HDAn old building in Venice hosts an exhibition. A visitor walks through empty rooms discovering a fictionalized architectural space that functions...
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Krieg und Frieden
Krieg und Frieden2/101982HDThe third episodical film, after Deutschland im Herbst and Der Kandidat, in which notable German film makers reflect on the state of their country.
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The Officer as a Philosopher
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Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmt
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In the Rock of Signs
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SnowwhiteRosered
SnowwhiteRosered5.7/101991HDDocumentary about the twin sister Jutta and Gisela Schmidt. In the late sixties the two women rebelled against middle class society as if they gave...
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Rome, as Far Away as the Moon
Rome, as Far Away as the Moon0/101991HDMovie scenes, montages of images and text, as well as conversations between Alexander Kluge, playwright Heiner Müller and classicist Wilfried...
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The Poetic Power of Theory
The Poetic Power of Theory0/102007HDThe Poetic Power of Theory: Aristotle, Heidegger, Spinoza, Marx, Nietzsche, Kant ("What Does it Mean to Orient Oneself in Thinking?"). Seven examples...
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Die Reise nach Wien
Die Reise nach Wien5.5/101973HDTwo women during WW2 living in a Hunsrück village embark on a trip to Vienna.
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An Opera That Sparked a Revolution
An Opera That Sparked a Revolution0/102024HDWith pictures by James Ensor and Alexander Kluge. The opera The Mute Girl of Portici tells the story of a young mute woman in Naples who is seduced...
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He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded
He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded0/101996HDA few months before his death, Müller responded to the keywords "breathing" and "smoking" with an anecdote that interprets breathing as an...
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News from the Great War
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Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard
Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard0/102000HDA portrait of Manfred Pichota, played by Peter Berling, tells about the period in which he was the Führer's bodyguard.
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Eomaia (Mother of the Dawn)
