Beginnings of Film Art (2024)
Alexander Kluge reflects on Eadweard Muybridge's work and the first modern Olympics. ...
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Alexander Kluge reflects on Eadweard Muybridge's work and the first modern Olympics. ...
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With 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 by a prince. The prince abandons her and marries a princess. The mute woman has to watch and cannot protest ...
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A commentary on Aby Warburg's Bilderatlas Mnemosyne, Panel B, Picture 9. ...
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At 91 years of age, Alexander Kluge is solidly regarded as a trailblazing figure in New German Cinema and the avant-garde. He remains active and curious about media, so it's no wonder that he recently began experimenting with artificial intelligence. He ha ...
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Short collage film regarding the history of philosophy. ...
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Kluge compares with three screens with clips, stills, storyboards of the two works. ...
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Alexander Kluge's avant-garde hommage to Manoel de Oliveira's surreal opera-musical film "The Cannibals". ...
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A reinvention of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, set in contemporary Manila as a rock musical. ...
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An homage to Hans Richter for the 35th anniversary of his death in 2021. ...
Watch NowVideo #1 of Finite Rants, a series of eight visual essays commissioned by Fondazione Prada and curated by Luigi Alberto Cippini and Niccolò Gravina. ...
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An old building in Venice hosts an exhibition. A visitor walks through empty rooms discovering a fictionalized architectural space that functions like an abandoned theatre set. Inspired by Alexander Kluge's oeuvre, this exploration attempts to de-construct ...
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Adorno is not just a theorist and philosopher, he was also a composer and student of Alban Berg in Vienna. The text of the short song goes: "What's driving there, on a cart and stretches out his long trunk?/ It is a mammoth! It is a mammoth! It is a mammot ...
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On the one hand, the beyond-Tropicália surreal, wild, ecstatic universe of Khavn de la Cruz, the Philippines' internationally most venerated underground filmmaker. On the other, the Frankfurt School dialectics of Alexander Kluge, self-proclaimed arrière- ...
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Triptych collage film regarding the history of revolution. ...
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Anselm Kiefer is one of the most important painters of the present, Alexander Kluge's television interviews are legendary. Over several years, the two have met again and kept detailed discussions. With their youthful joy of associating, they talk about Kie ...
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A collaborative essay film regarding Fritz Lang. ...
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In a timely precursor, this 40 minute talk sees Alexander Kluge and Joseph Vogl return to their customary roles. Kluge feigns the curious lay reader. He defers to the professional diviner of high and popular culture, Vogl. Together they make a sort of Dant ...
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This video segment complements the 2014 English-language edition of History and Obstinacy by Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt, edited by Devin Fore and translated by Richard Langston (Zone Books). ...
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Heiner Müller defines Stoicism as an attempt to deal with anarchy. For him, Erich Honecker is an example for "forced stoicism". Müller agrees with the following quote by Goethe: May God save me from self-awareness! For Müller, it represents a stoic atti ...
Watch NowIn a conversation with Heiner Müller, Alexander Kluge asked him to say what kind of thing, animal, job, whatever... could Deutschland be. Heiner Müller answered: "just a pretty woman". ...
Watch NowIn late antiquity, the religions were not yet rigidly opposed to each other, so that Christian apocrypha, the Babylonian Talmund and the Koran reveal spiritual diversity. Alexander Kluge's usual sparsely illustrated (television) essay film consists mainly ...
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The metropolises in Mesopotamia (Uruk, Babylon), the city in Greek antiquity (Athens), the founding of Rome and the Celtic castle sites (oppida) establish quite different communities. ...
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Alexander Kluge's News from Ideological Antiquity begins with Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein's ambitious but unrealized plan to combine Karl Marx's Capital and James Joyce's Ulysses. For over nine hours, the film expands in concentric circles as Kluge, ...
Watch NowAlexander Kluge and Hartmut Bitomsky discuss the film Staub (Dust). Dust is called "matter in the wrong place." In fact, dust is an irresistible state of dissolution at the beginning and end of all things and living things. ...
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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 record of the installation / performance, with footage of the installation in situ with Kluge seated within ...
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People who do not have the patience or the opportunity to listen to all 86,000 operas that exist in the world need an opera guide. The opera guide is imaginary when it takes in the full force of the pain and extreme expression that are part of the utopia o ...
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The Poetic Power of Theory: Aristotle, Heidegger, Spinoza, Marx, Nietzsche, Kant ("What Does it Mean to Orient Oneself in Thinking?"). Seven examples taken from 200 television reportage programmes. "One must take that which is of significance outside of te ...
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A reference to the song of the same name, which carries the motif of "La Paloma" (the dove) and can be traced back to an episode that occurred in 492 BC, before Darius' invasion of Greece, a time when the white dove had not yet been seen in Europe. ...
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A short by Alexander Kluge. ...
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A talk with Alexander Kluge and Jean-Luc Godard. ...
Watch NowAs indicated in the subtitle Tiehrmehlfabrikant Dr. Fred Eicke weiss Auswege, this work centres on the animal food producer Fred Eicke (a part played by Peter Berling). The title refers to The Corrosion of Character (translated into German as Der Flexible ...
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An essay from Edison's famous 1903 short film recording the execution by electricity of a tame elephant from Coney Island's Forepaugh Circus. ...
Watch NowA portrait of Manfred Pichota, played by Peter Berling, tells about the period in which he was the Führer's bodyguard. ...
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Short science fiction film, a companion piece to Kluge's Der Große Verhau and Willi Tobler und der Untergang der 6. Flotte. ...
Watch NowWer immer hofft stirbt singend is a bagatelle bordering on the burlesque, in which Kluge combines (historical) visual material and nostalgic images of various disasters with very graphically elaborated title card texts. The somewhat awkward Mexican Banda m ...
Watch NowHis prose text "An Attempt at Love", published in 1962, can be classified in the prehistory of the Auschwitz trials and deals with the attempt by the camp supervisors to manipulate two imprisoned Jews to engage in sexual intercourse in order to test steril ...
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Alexander Kluge's tribute to Soviet master Dziga Vertov, displaying a collage of stills from Vertov's work on the screen of a white round TV set to the sound of brass music and percussion. ...
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The point of departure for this discussion is the question of whether the collapse of the Soviet Union is dramatic material. Müller answers with this Brechtian sentence: "Oil resists the five acts." He describes how difficult it is to make a dramatic adap ...
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Short science fiction film with footage from Willi Tobler und der Untergang der 6. Flotte. ...
Watch NowThe discussion begins with the parable of a frog in boiling water. It comes from the book "Post-heroic Management: A Manual" by Dirk Baecker, which is what Heiner Müller is currently reading at the time of the discussion. ...
Watch NowMüller describes Ovid's Metamorphoses, Golding's translation of which (1603) was one of Shakespeare's sources, as an encyclopedia of the Greek myths, its dramatic central theme being the transformation of human beings into animals, plants, stones---either ...
Watch NowA few months before his death, Müller responded to the keywords "breathing" and "smoking" with an anecdote that interprets breathing as an indiscretion towards the dead. In his view, smoking is a means of practicing stoicism: "Whoever smokes looks cold-bl ...
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"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 expansion of a settlement began, which became a center for the immigrant workforce, traditional industry, s ...
Watch NowThe horizon of this conversation is marked by Müller's personal memories, reflections about ongoing themes in his work, thoughts about his current production and the nearness to death that has been brought by his illness. ...
Watch NowThe conversation begins on the topic of Müller's plans for new plays. Müller tells us that he has promised to write a libretto for Boulez, and that he wishes to use the myth of Heracles as material for a stage play. ...
Watch NowOne of Müllers's vocal cords was paralyzed as a result of a life-saving radical operation (1995). At the beginning of the discussion Müller observes that figures from Greek mythology live on today as trademarks for products (Ajax as a cleaning agent, Pol ...
Watch NowIn this journal, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller talk about the dark side and the inevitability of democracy. Heiner Müller believes that democracy has its roots in the tragedy of the Atreidae. ...
Watch NowThe title of the interview is from a line in a poem written by an American about the battle of Ypern in World War I: "My rendezvous with Death took place in a trench." Müller begins the interview by narrating how he prepared himself, both mentally and phy ...
Watch NowThe central topic of the interview is the ancient concept of a necessary balance between the dead and the living, which also assumes the notion of a constant potential for force in the world. Müller and Kluge examine this mythical conception of life with ...
Watch NowIn order to justify interpreting the Oresteia as a representation of the "birth of democracy" (P. Stein), one has to repress a lot, for example the sacrifice of Iphigenia or Elektra's feminist rebellion. The Oresteia represents an "Egyptian" material, situ ...
Watch NowThis "music magazine" is a montage of visually alienated historical film clips of tanks and soldiers (First and Second World War), pictorial reminiscences of Russian avant-garde art, and excerpts of interviews with Heiner Müller accompanied by heavy metal ...
Watch NowHeiner 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 his fascination with this "giant ridge" that he characterizes as the "Asian time preserve of Russia." This is ...
Watch NowCiting Nietzsche, Müller describes the motive of the philologist as "greed," "simply wanting to have everything, grasp everything, know everything." This "hunger" distinguishes the artist, but has become lost in modern art, which is so boring now because ...
Watch NowA news magazine program on important aspects of the history of postrevolutionary Cuba, consisting of two documentary film sequences about Castro and two interview sequences with Heiner Müller. Castro speaks about his experiences in the revolution and abou ...
Watch NowHere Müller and Kluge explicitly address a theme that is latently present in many of their conversations: the relation of intellectuals to reigning political power. Given his many writings on Frederick the Great, it is not surprising that Müller begins t ...
Watch NowKluge here presents a portrait of Friedrich the Great by means of quotations, film clips, historical images, and film documents. The program is a contribution to a public discussion about the role of the Prussian king in German and European history that un ...
Watch NowIn this conversation, taking place shortly after the German reunification, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller discuss historical developments from the perspective of playwright Heiner Müller's view on subjectivity. Among other things, they talk about the ...
Watch NowAt the time of the conversation Heiner Müller was the president of the Academy of Arts - East. At the beginning he describes his daily routine to Kluge. He is an unwilling president who has to lead an academy - which will soon be absorbed into a "European ...
Watch NowMovie scenes, montages of images and text, as well as conversations between Alexander Kluge, playwright Heiner Müller and classicist Wilfried Stroh provide a multifaceted insight in the far-away world of Ancient Rome. The conversation with Müller revolv ...
Watch NowTwo-hour television documentary by Alexander Kluge and Meinhard Prill on the documentary filmmakers of the "Stuttgart school". ...
Watch Now"The metaphor is cleverer than the author" (Lichtenberg), a "screen," an "instrument for bundling" (Müller), because "everything changes so much" (Gertrude Stein) - Müller explicates these functions of figurative language with reference to the use of met ...
Watch NowIn this interview Müller and Kluge explore the East German's memories of the final days of the war. The session is introduced by a clip from the Russian film maker Sergei Parajanov's 1961 film entitled The Ukranian Rhapsody. Here a soldier of the Red Army ...
Watch NowIn 1989, Heiner Müller staged an unabridged seven-and-a-half hour Hamlet, because in the process of German reunification "a leave-taking from the Hamlet principle in favor of the market economy" was taking place. In this interview, he elaborates on the pa ...
Watch NowThis portrait of Heiner Müller on the occasion of his 60th birthday is devoted for the most part to having Müller recount events and memories from the first quarter of his life, starting with his birth on January 9, 1929 and closing with his immediate po ...
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Film about the Paper Tiger Television non-profit, low-budget public access television program and open media collective based in New York City. ...
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King Kong appears in various collages of a white cruise ship; meanwhile, a victory has been won and photographed in France in November 1918, and someone in a cartoon has stolen the Eiffel Tower, which now stands over an abyss in the American West. ...
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A drama that 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 a meeting between former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt ...
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A poignant film essay about 'superfluous people' facing up to a moment of crisis in their lives. ...
Watch NowThe Cold War is peaking again in divided Germany in the early 1980s. How to deal with the upcoming nuclear annihilation shows this Alexander Kluge short. ...
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Emotions and feelings should not be confused with sentimentality. Emotion is ancient and more powerful than any artistic expression. The film observes young couples facing difficulties while trying to move their love experiences towards clear decision maki ...
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The third episodic film, after Deutschland im Herbst and Der Kandidat, in which notable German filmmakers reflect on the state of their country. A collage of documentary and dramatised sequences dealing with such topics as overkill, peace demonstrations, N ...
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Made with an eye to the autumn of 1980 when the German parliamentary elections took place, The Candidate examines Germany's history past and present and Franz Josef Strauß, the man who, as the CDU/CSU candidate, aspires to be elected to the most important ...
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Gabi Teichert, a history teacher, is unhappy with the way history is portrayed in textbooks and is looking for an alternative, more practical approach to 'uncovering' the past, quite literally digging with the spade and dissecting books with hammers and dr ...
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Nine fictitious documentaries and films reflect the mood of late 1970s Germany, particularly the two-month period in 1977 when a businessman was kidnapped by the RAF (Red Army Faction). The kidnap had been made to orchestrate the release of the original le ...
Watch NowAlexander Kluge documents the preparations for an exhibition on the Staufer dynasty. ...
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The clownish security chief of a West German business is obsessed with protecting his factory from fancied and real breaches, especially from groups such as The Red Army Faction. Ferdinand's paranoia and methods can't be contained by his company. The sympa ...
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Combining fictional and documentary modes, the film takes a critical stance toward Frankfurt's public sphere and urban redevelopment. Despite the serious formal and political concerns of the film, Kluge's heightened sense of the absurd safeguards a reserve ...
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Roswitha runs an illegal abortion clinic in Frankfurt to support her student husband and children. When she is forced to close her practice she delves into political and social activism. ...
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Two women during WW2 living in a Hunsrück village embark on a trip to Vienna. ...
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Willi 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 he takes in this civil war... ...
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Outer space in 2034 is run by greedy corporations in a rundown bureaucracy. Two astronauts, who are not very smart, make their way with shady dealings, smuggling and spaceship wrecking. ...
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The Indomitable Leni Peickert is a loose, half-hour sequel to Alexander Kluge's second feature film, Artists in the Big Top: Perplexed. This shorter work, seemingly assembled from leftover footage from the longer film, continues the story of the circus own ...
Watch NowStraschek's film points to the gap between workers and intellectuals and describes the "difficulties of the revolution" in a biting and witty way. ...
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Alexander Kluge follows his father, a doctor, in his daily activity. ...
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A young circus director ends up going into television after her father, a trapeze performer, dies in a circus accident. ...
Watch NowKluge's short-film starring his sister/muse Alexandra. ...
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A young German woman searches for happiness, liberation, and independence in the illusive wake of a transformative national recovery. ...
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Mrs. Blackburn, born in 1872, i.e. before the history of cinema began, is Alexander Kluge's grandmother. Portrait of this lady. ...
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A news documentary about the 1966 Venice Film Festival. ...
Watch NowEarly Alexander Kluge short film that follows the career of a German policeman from World War I into the 1960s. ...
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Documentary short by Alexander Kluge about the role of teachers in history. ...
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In his experimental short film "Brutalität in Stein" (Brutality in Stone), Alexander Kluge demonstrates how Nazi architecture used dimensions of inhuman and super-human scale to bolster the regime's politics of the same kind. Shots of huge neo-classical a ...
Watch NowCar racing, speed, the spectators' fascination, the signs of an era made of machines and competition. But "victory" is not the real meaning of it. ...
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Seetha and Harold Berger are rescued from the desert by a caravan and brought to a small village. However, the greedy owner of the house where they are lodged betrays the law of hospitality and reveals their location to Prince Ramigani. The couple tries to ...
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In Eschnapur, a German architect saves the life of the Maharajah's favorite temple dancer and becomes Maharajah's friend but their friendship is tested when the architect and the dancer fall in-love, triggering the Maharajah's vengeful ire. ...
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From the 1950s onwards, Erika and Ulrich Gregor brought countless film historical milestones to Berlin and shaped cinema discourse in post-war Germany. A look at the life and work of the couple without whom Arsenal and the Forum wouldn't exist. ...
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"Wings Of Desire" and "Buena Vista Social Club", "Paris, Texas" and "The State Of Things": Wim Wenders is considered one of the pioneers of New German Cinema and one of the most important and influential representatives of contemporary cinema. With never-b ...
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For over half a century, the filmmaker Edgar Reitz, one of the signatories of the Oberhausen Manifesto and a pioneer of epic film narration, has explored, as a practitioner and theoretician, the rules and limits of cinema, which he always seeks to break an ...
Watch NowIn conversations with his friends and colleagues, among them Bernd Upnmoor, Helmut Herbst, Alexander Kluge, Klaus Wyborny, Daniel Kothenschulte and Helge Schneider, Ulrike Pfeiffer takes us on a journey into the broad expanse of Nekes' cabinet of wonder an ...
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In An Opera of the World, Malian scholar and filmmaker Manthia Diawara reflects upon the refugee crisis and the relationship between Europe and Africa. The film revolves around a 2008 performance of Bintou Were, a Sahel Opera, by Zé Manel Fortes with a li ...
Watch NowAnselm Kiefer is one of the most important painters of the present, Alexander Kluge's television interviews are legendary. Over several years, the two have met again and kept detailed discussions. With their youthful joy of associating, they talk about Kie ...
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Strolling through France (Roanne, Nice and Carcassonne) with some excursions abroad (Munich, Montreal, New York). ...
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Documentary about filmmakers of the New German Cinema who were members of the legendary Filmverlag für Autoren (Film Publishing House for Authors). Among them are Werner Herzog, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Wim Wenders. ...
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A study of Alexander Kluge that also emulates his technique of seeking and linking. Kluge reads aloud, Kluge recounts, including stories from his childhood and youth, from the bombing of Halberstadt, his home town. "What you don't understand as a child you ...
Watch NowA talk with Alexander Kluge and Jean-Luc Godard. ...
Watch NowA portrait of Manfred Pichota, played by Peter Berling, tells about the period in which he was the Führer's bodyguard. ...
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A meditation on the first 100 years of German cinema, featuring an assembly of German filmmakers. ...
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Documentary about the twin sister Jutta and Gisela Schmidt. In the late sixties the two women rebelled against middle class society as if they gave vent to a new kind of art. They became active in the underground communist party KPD and showed a heart-fel ...
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Documentary aired on German television in 1989. Includes interviews with Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Alexander Kluge and more. ...
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Documentary by Wilhelm Roth about the state of affairs of the Young German Cinema. ...
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Documentary about the current state of German cinema. Produced for German television. ...
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