Alexander Kluge
Born in Halberstadt, Germany — Feb 14 1932• Died Mar 25 2026
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Alexander Kluge (born 14 February 1932) was a German author, philosopher, academic and film director. Kluge became known in the 1960s and 1970s as one of the most influential representatives of the New German Cinema, which he helped to establish and develop in theory and practice.
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Alexander Kluge's Credits
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Bambi
Self
German Film Award
Self
Lebensläufe
Self
The Indian Tomb
Directing
The Tiger of Eschnapur
Directing
Germany in Autumn
Directing
Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave
Directing
Wim Wenders, Desperado
Self (archive footage)
War and Peace
Directing
The Journey to Vienna
Writing
The Night of the Filmmakers
Self
The Power of Emotion
Directing
The Heart and the Legs
Self
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
Self (uncredited)
Yesterday Girl
Directing
The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time
Directing
...Geist und ein wenig Glück
Himself
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
Self
SnowwhiteRosered
Self
Orphea
Directing
The Klimperclown
Self
Miscellaneous News
Directing
Brutality in Stone
Directing
Die Erben von Papas Kino
He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded
Directing
Rennen
Directing
Strongman Ferdinand
Directing
The Eiffel Tower, King Kong and the White Woman
Directing
Biermann-Film
Directing
Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias
Self
Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed
Directing
The Patriotic Woman
Directing
Nachrichten vom Großen Krieg
Directing
The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 1941
Directing
The Magic of the Darkened Soul
Directing
Protocol of a Revolution
Directing
Chicago in Time Lapse
Directing
The Big Mess
Directing
Alle Gefühle glauben an einen glücklichen Ausgang
Self
Spaceflight as an Internal Experience
Directing
News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The Capital
Directing
In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death
Directing
Five Hours Parsifal in 90 Seconds
Directing
Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse
Self
Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet
Directing
Nuits transparentes
Das Phänomen der Oper
Directing
Früchte des Vertrauens
Directing
The Indomitable Leni Peickert
Directing
Max Horkheimer – Philosopher and Sociologist
Directing
Werner Nekes - Life Between the Pictures
Self
Eomaia (Mother of the Dawn)
Directing
The Candidate
Directing
The Leaks of Venice
Production
E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher
Directing
Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer Hand
Directing
Im Sturm der Zeit - Facts & Fakes
Directing
Mein Jahrhundert, mein Tier!
Directing
Blind Love – Talk with Jean-Luc Godard
Directing
Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film
Self
Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love”
Engine Cough
Directing
Cosmic Miniatures
Directing
Der Deutschland-Komplex
Directing
Thema Amore
Directing
The Officer as a Philosopher
Directing
Light Veins
Directing
16 Minute-films
Directing
Under the Sign of Mars
Directing
The Deadly Triangle
Directing
Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by
Directing
Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour
Directing
Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904)
Production
The Poetic Power of Theory
Directing
Sam Remembers Papa Kong
Directing
Bodenhaftung, Hautnähe, Lot zum Erdmittelpunkt
Directing
An Experiment in Love
Directing
Primitive Diversity
Directing
Beginnings of Film Art
Directing
Die Frau auf dem Schlachtfeld
Directing
Der schwedische Mozart
Directing
For Vertov
Directing
Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard
Rennfahrer
Directing
We Philosophers from Eve’s Rib
Directing
10 vor 11
Creator
Reform Circus
The Last of the Mohicans
Directing
The Flexible Entrepreneur
Directing
Policeman's Lot
Directing
Reason is a Balancing Animal
Directing
Learning Processes with a Deadly Outcome
Directing
Nach jedem Untergang kommt ein Dampfer
Directing
Utopie der Oper
Directing
Sad News
Directing
People Preparing the Staufer Anniversary
Directing
Finite and Infinite Games
Himself
A Doctor From Haberstadt
Directing
The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot
Directing
Sergej Eisenstein Stages Alexander Newski (1938) and Wagner‘s Walküre (1940)
Directing
Multiple Images for Five Projectors
Self
Neonröhren des Himmels
Directing
Moby Dick – Godzilla – Fukushima
Directing
Heiner Müller on Legal Questions
Directing
Every Frozen Structure has its Academy
Directing
String Cinema – Mathematical Minute Opera
Directing
News from the 1966 Venice Film Festival
Directing
Plowshare of Evil
Directing
Storm Over Egypt
Directing
Fassbinder's Funeral
Directing
Die Liebe stört der kalte Tod
Camera
The Day Is Nigh
Directing
In the Rock of Signs
Directing
Als die Himmel noch miteinander sprachen
Directing
Happy Lamento
Directing
Nachrichten von den Staufern
Directing
Rigor Was His Mark of Quality
Directing
Frederick of Prussia
Directing
The Voice of the Playwright
Directing
Zirkus, Richter’s Tango
Directing
Mind, Power, Castration
Directing
I Owe the World a Dead Person
Directing
Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908
Directing
Über Unterschiede beim Sprechen: 20 Beispiele
Directing
Adorno - Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im falschen
Self
Mehrfachbilder Vielfalt Fuenfalt ohne blaues Ende
Directing
La Paloma
Directing
Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management
Directing
An Opera of the World
Himself
Parsifal verlernen
Directing
On the Holy Spirit
Auf Messers Schneide: das Jahr 1929
Directing
Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre Anfänge
Directing
Zwischen Mitternacht und der vierten Nachtstunde
Directing
Hommage zu Manoel de Oliveiras Film-Oper Os Canibais
Directing
The Execution of an Elephant
Directing
100 Years of the German Rhine
Directing
Dancing with Pictures
Himself
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, wo sind sie geblieben?
Directing
Das Prinzip Stadt. Oskar Negt über die "Stadt in uns"
Directing
A Woman Like a Volcano
Directing
Theorie der Erzählung
Himself
Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday
Directing
Veränderung ist das Salz des Vergnügens
Directing
At Work in the Ruins of Morality
Directing
Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmt
Directing
The World is Not Bad, but Full
Directing
La Habanera
Directing
Pretty Woman and other stories, a film with Alexander Kluge
Directing
Weltmacht Staub. Hartmut Bitomsky über einen unbesiegbaren Zustand der Materie
Directing
On the Way to a Theater of Darknesses
Directing
Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath
Directing
My Rendezvous with Death
Directing
Das gab’s nur einmal
Directing
Anti-Opera
Directing
Planetary Man
Directing
The Death of Seneca
Directing
Omnivore Democracy
Directing
Happy Root From Non-Identity
Directing
Lehrer im Wandel
Directing
Attack on a Thick Glass Door
Directing
Paper Tiger Television, New York
Directing
Rome, as Far Away as the Moon
Directing
An Opera That Sparked a Revolution
Directing
Rule a Great Country as You Would Fry Small Fish
Directing
Rettung vor dem Tode / 4000 Jahre Liebe / Rettet Liebe vor dem Tode?
Directing
The Trickiness of Peace Treaties
Directing
Heiner Müller in Time Flight
Directing
Werewolves Playoffs
Directing
Wild Night with Moon
Directing
A Poker Game
Directing
“Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History”
Directing
The Revolution is a Creature Full of Surprises
Directing
Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day
Directing
Heterotopie der Oper
Directing
Der Gärtner von Nürnberg
Directing
Ort und zeit ohne grund ist gewalt
Directing
Der Zirkus kommt in die Stadt
Directing
He Who Hopes, Dies Singing
Directing
Madame Butterfly Waits
Directing
Antiques of Advertising
Directing
Lied der Medea
Directing
Spinoza und die Modi Gottes
Directing
Die Festwagen der Großen Französischen Revolution
Directing
Zirkus im Krieg
Directing
Trump State Visit
Directing