Alexander Kluge
Alexander Ernst Kluge was a German author, film director, academic and founder of a television production company. After studies with Theodor W. Adorno in Frankfurt, he worked as an assistant to Fritz Lang for The Tiger of Eschnapur. He directed his first film, Brutality in Stone, in 1960, a short montage dealing with the Nazi past. He became instrumental for New German Cinema, establishing an institute for film at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm. Among his signature films were Artists under the Big Top: Perplexed in 1968 and The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time in 1985. In 1987 Kluge founded the television production company DCTP, producing for private television.
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Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
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2022
Happy Lamento
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2018
Happy Lamento
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2018
Mehrfachbilder Vielfalt Fuenfalt ohne blaues Ende
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2017
Reason is a Balancing Animal
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2017
News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The Capital
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2008
Fifi
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2008
Sense below the Sense
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2008
Who Am "I"? Peer Gynt
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2008
Man is the Soft Target
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2008
What Does "Good Will" Mean?
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2007
The Safety of the President
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2007
The Gentle Makeup of Light New 65 mm minute shorts
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2007
The Car is your Second Skin
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2007
Megastars of the Art of Love
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2007
The Deterrent
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2007
War is the End of all Plans
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2007
I Lived for my Art
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2007
"The Burning Giraffe"
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2007
Love Makes You Perceptive!
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2007
Das Phänomen der Oper
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2007
The Opera Doctor
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2007
Serpentine Gallery Program
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2006
Borderline Cases of Damage Control
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2006
The Greatest Treasure of Evolution
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2006
From 9 a.m. to Early the Next Morning Columbus Sailed Straight Ahead Westwards
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2006
The Deadly Triangle
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2006
"Surplus Value" & its Images
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2005
Thinking for Oneself
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2005
The Black Market of Love
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2005
The Moon Has Risen
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2005
Freedom for the Consonants!
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2004
A Tear for Every Drop of Blood
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2004
A Tear for Every Drop of Blood
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2004
Only Cans Were Saved
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2003
Darklings Sing Bass
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2002
The Holding of Skulls is not My Thing!
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2001
Dance on the Volcano
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2001
The Kiss of Death
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2001
True Love on the Front
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2001
"Love Pain Like Mute Fish"
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2001
Attention: Total Loss!
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2001
Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen!
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2001
Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen!
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2001
Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen!
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2001
The Deluge
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1999
"With all the Wealth of my Needs"
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1999
Nietzsches fröhliche Wissenschaft
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1999
Snapshots for my Fiancé
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1999
My Love is Deeper than the Sea
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1999
The Mute Girl of Portici
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1998
I Come Every Morning for Sex
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1998
"Of which we cannot speak we must sing!"
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1998
"The Wind Will Clean It Off"
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1996
Love as Passion
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1995
Die neun Unzertrennlichen
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1994
"80,000 Operas!"
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1994
Rule a Great Country as You Would Fry Small Fish
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1993
"The Screeching Sound of Power as Soon as it Puts on the Brakes"
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1992
"I Confess!" Day-Trip Shopping Excursion
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1992
Soprano versus Bass
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1992
Soviet Patriots of 1941
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1991
Richard Wagner and the Law of Ruin Value in Music
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1990
The Pilot's Song
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1988
The Death of Lucretia
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1988
Die Guillotine oder die Kategorie der Plötzlichkeit
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1988
Japanclips
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1988
The African Lady, or Love with a Fatal Outcome
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1988
Changing Time (Quickly)
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1988
Blue Hour Tango Time
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1988
Madame Butterfly Waits
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1988
Antiques of Advertising
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1988
Why Are You Crying, Antonio?
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1988
The Power of Emotion
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1983
The Power of Emotion
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1983
Germany in Autumn
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1978
Germany in Autumn
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1978
In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death
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1974
In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death
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1974
Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave
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1973
Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave
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1973
Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed
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1968
Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed
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1968
Yesterday Girl
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1967
Yesterday Girl
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1967
Portrait d'une mise à l'épreuve
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1964
The most beautiful treasure of evolution
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Bleib steh'n, Wanderer, und lies
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Die siamesischen Hände
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Von Ur-Ozean und Snowball-Earth
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