Alexander Hacke

Einstürzende Neubauten: Live at Primavera Sound 2015 (2015)

Wilde Jahre West-Berlin (2015)

Tv documentary by Margarete Kreuzer about the sub-culture of West-Berlin in the 1980s. The unique political and geographical status of West-Berlin in the cold war lead to a unique scene of artists reflecting the Zeitgeist and creating profound work that i ...

Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 13: Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus) (2012)

A short film to accompany the reissue of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus (originally released in 2004). The result is a determinedly human portrait of the unique body of work produced by the band over the last 25 years, t ...

NYC Foetus (2009)

A documentary about composer/producer/performer JG Thirlwell and his musical alter-egos, including Foetus, Steroid Maximus and Manorexia. Featuring interviews with Thirlwell, Matt Johnson (The The), Alex Hacke (Neubauten), Michael Gira (Swans), Richard Ker ...

Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 1: From Her to Eternity) (2009)

A short film to accompany the reissue of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album From Her to Eternity (originally released in 1984). The result is a determinedly human portrait of the unique body of work produced by the band over the last 25 years, told through th ...

Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 2: The Firstborn is Dead) (2009)

A short film to accompany the reissue of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album The Firstborn is Dead (originally released in 1985). The result is a determinedly human portrait of the unique body of work produced by the band over the last 25 years, told through t ...

Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 4: Your Funeral... My Trial) (2009)

A short film to accompany the reissue of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album Your Funeral... My Trial (originally released in 1986). The result is a determinedly human portrait of the unique body of work produced by the band over the last 25 years, told throug ...

Blixa Bargeld (2008)

Blixa Bargeld (born Christian Emmerich) is a German-born musician active in a number of artistic fields. He is best known for his studio work and live performances with the groups Einstürzende Neubauten and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. In the center the ...

Einstuerzende Neubauten: Palast Der Republik (2006)

Recorded live in Berlin, 4th November 2004 ...

Mountains of Madness (2006)

Are the peaks worth climbing? A musical journey through the world of H.P. ...

Seele Brennt (2005)

Seele Brennt is a documentary on the band. It is also known as: 'Hor mit Schmerzen'. It was televised on ZDF / arte celebrating 20 years Neubauten. ...

Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul (2005)

German musician Alexander Hacke explores Istanbul's rich music culture and attempts to create a portrait of Turkey through music genres. On this journey, he encounters a mosaic that covers countless genres from rock to arabesque, electronic to hip-hop. ...

Listen With Pain (2001)

Along with Can and Kraftwerk Einstuerzende Neubauten are amongst the most important bands to come out of late 20th Century Germany. 'Listen With Pain' is a documentary celebration of their twentieth birthday shot by long time fans and filmmakers Christian ...

Planet Alex (2001)

Berlin Alexanderplatz; within 24 hours, various stories rotate between the heights and depths of the square, between the television tower and the subway shafts, between larger and smaller fates, that slowly but surely become entangled. ...

The Killer Condom (1996)

In New York City, detective Luigi Mackeroni investigates a string of mysterious penile mutilations at the Hotel Quickie. After Mackeroni attempts to have a tryst with a gigolo he meets in the lobby, a carniverous condom bites off his right testicle and fle ...

Die Haut - Sweat (1994)

Die Haut filmed live at Tempodrom, Berlin, August 1992. Featuring guest vocalists Alexander Hacke, Anita Lane, Blixa Bargeld, Kid Congo Powers, Lydia Lunch and Nick Cave. ...

Kandidaten (1994)

The Eye of the Typhoon (1993)

Performance conceived by Erich Wonder & Heiner Müller for the 300th anniversary of the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna. The band, Einstürzende Neubauten, is located on a glass palace/stage on wheels (accompanied by the slavish trotting of huskie ...

Fatherland (1992)

It is shortly after the fall of the Wall and Kadir is released from an East Berlin psychiatric clinic. Resolved to begin life over again in Germany, he soon has to accept that there is no longer a place for him. ...

Kings of Independence (1987)

Live footage with three bands: Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, Crime And The City Solution, Swans. Recorded at Knopf's Music Hall, Hamburg, August 15th, 1987. ...

1/2 Man (1986)

A visual documentary of Einstürzende Neubauten, the German underground band, by Japanese cult director Sogo Ishii, made during their 1985 tour of Japan. The band makes an elaborate and remarkably choreographed appearance in the ruins of an old ironworks w ...

Berlin Now (1985)

A voyeuristic panorama of a specific moment in the German independent music scene. ...

Decoder (1984)

F.M. discovers that different sonic frequencies induce different patterns of behaviour in listeners, first in his own studio but later in the local "H-Burger" restaurant where the passive muzak appears to be wiping people's emotions. ...

Empire V (2023)

In modern-day Moscow, disaffected former journalism student Roman follows a cryptic invitation to join "the elite" and finds himself forcibly transformed into a vampire. But not your typical creature of the night. Thanks to a parasitical worm known as the ...

Takeaway (2022)

A racewalking athlete Maria runs a petrol station with a takeaway shop in a desolate mountain village, she is almost 30 years old, she may have little chance to fulfill her lifelong dream of success but at what cost? ...

All Is One. Except 0 (2020)

In 1981, Wau Holland and other hackers established the Hamburg based Chaos Computer Club (CCC). The idiosyncratic freethinkers were inspired by Californian technology visionaries and committed themselves to hacker ethics. All information must be free. Use ...

Zerbrochen - Ein Fall für Dr. Abel (2019)

A woman dies in a Berlin nightclub after being overdosed with a drug. Abel's children, who have fun in Berlin's nightlife, are also caught by the murderer. ...

Zerschunden - Ein Fall für Dr. Abel (2019)

A murderer always kills across Europe according to the same pattern: he kills single women and provides the victims with his personal signature. A friend of Abel's is suspected. Abel wants to help him and investigates himself. ...

Zersetzt - Ein Fall für Dr. Abel (2018)

High & Outside: A Baseball Noir (2018)

A minor league baseball player refuses to believe his career is over and takes desperate measures to keep his dream alive. ...

Summer Solstice (2015)

Romek is a Polish railway worker and Guido is a German soldier. They are both 17, in love with jazz and the same pretty girl. But it's 1943 somewhere in German-occupied Poland, and their lives are bound to change soon. ...

The Cut (2014)

In 1915 a man survives the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, but loses his family, speech and faith. One night he learns that his twin daughters may be alive, and goes on a quest to find them. ...

Polluting Paradise (2012)

Villagers in Turkey's Black Sea village of Camburnu struggle with the government's decision to turn their community into a garbage dump. ...

Generation P (2011)

Set in the ground zero of gangster globalism and driven by a truly manic energy, Generation P is at once a comedy, a tragedy and a fantasy about the rise of a poet-turned-adman through Russia's nascent advertising business during the Moscow roaring 1990s. ...

Last Cowboy Standing (2009)

In 1982 the guilt-ridden 18-year-old Rupert tries to remember and understand the events of the past amidst the chaos of the present. ...

Fuori dalle corde (2007)

Michele "Mike" Lo Russo is a young Italian boxer who has moved to Hamburg to start a professional boxing career. When his German manager refuses to renew his contract, he returns to Trieste, where his older sister Anna lives. Orphaned at an early age, Anna ...

Mountains of Madness (2006)

Are the peaks worth climbing? A musical journey through the world of H.P. ...

Sehnsucht (2004)

An extreme athlete falls while climbing and ends up living with a doctor who performs surgery on himself. He turns out to be an alcoholic who loses his medical license shortly thereafter. In her attempt to help him overcome his addiction, she loses touch w ...

Head-On (2004)

With the intention to break free from the strict familial restrictions, a suicidal young woman sets up a marriage of convenience with a forty-year-old addict, an act that will lead to an outburst of envious love. ...

Fatherland (1992)

It is shortly after the fall of the Wall and Kadir is released from an East Berlin psychiatric clinic. Resolved to begin life over again in Germany, he soon has to accept that there is no longer a place for him. ...

Nihil, or All the Time in the World (1987)

In an post-apocalyptic future, a group of young terrorists fights desperately against the obscure "Professor", the personification of all that is unwholesome in society, who ingeniously controls the ruins of civilization. ...