Alexander Kluge

The story of the former policeman Müller-Seegeberg, who loyally served under six different governments, constantly making it clear he was reliable. (cinereel.org)

Anita Alexandra Kluge is a young East German woman who comes to West Germany in hopes of a better life in this social drama. She has trouble with the law when she steals and has more trouble adjusting to life in a new society. Anita becomes her employer's mistress, but she leaves when she is wrongly accused of an unrelated theft. She becomes a wandering gypsy, confused and unable to deal with either the communist regime or a free-market economy. (All Movie Guide)

Leni, the daughter of an artist plans on opening a new kind of circus and suddenly finds herself able to achieve her goals after the death of a rich friend who has named her sole beneficiary...

Various aspects of German history are explored from several angles in a series of odd sequences. Gabi Teichert (Hannelore Hogar) is both a history teacher and a patriot. One day she goes out into the winter landscape carrying a shovel (digging for the truth?). She comes across is a dead soldier killed at the battle of Leningrad, whose symbolically disembodied knee speaks to her... (All Movie Guide)

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 sympathetically-drawn Ferdinand's ludicrous actions recall those of the cynical, disastrous axis between fascism and big business in 1930's Europe... (imdb)

Shots of huge neo-classical architectural structures from the Nazi period are confronted with equally anti-human national-socialist language as a voice-over. (IMDb)

Manfred Pichota's silhouette appears in various historical documents. What can he talk about? (cinereel.org)

An organic and fractured, yet humorous, intuitive, and poetic rumination on the integral - and correlative - nature of technology and (urban) identity, the intersection of film and new media in the creation of art, and the delusive quest to manipulate time. (filmref.com)

Celebrated West German director Alexander Kluge presents this 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 and East German leader Erich Honecker. (answers.com)

The movie does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. (imdb)

Technical devices such as fast-motion or colorization contest the authority of "realistic" images of the world. Impossible stories - a murdered Yugoslav factory manager is miraculously brought back to life by two petty criminals - defy all ordinary dramatic logic. Stage tricks are unmasked and one of the most poignant moments in opera - the mistaken killing of Rigoletto's daughter - is coolly analyzed by a wardrobe mistress. (pdome.org)

The collaboration between Kluge, Schlöndorff, Aust, and Engstfeld resulted in a study of the nuclear arms race during the West German debate about accepting the deployment of U.S. Pershing missiles.

Roswitha carries out abortions to support her student husband Franz, and so she can afford to have more children. The police intervene and Franz is arrested. When he comes out of prison, Roswitha decides to enter politics and social work.

The fictional stories of a "sexual intercourse thief" and an agent of the German Democratic Republic are confronted with real events like the squatting in Frankfurt and the street carnival in the spring of 1974.

Eighty years after Sergei Eisenstein's plan to make a movie out of Karl Marx's Das Kapital , trailblazing German filmmaker Alexander Kluge examines this phenomenal project, creating cinematic miniatures about Marx's theory, which to us now seems as close or as far as antiquity. (germanyinnyc.org)

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. (imdb)

Willi (Alfred Edel) endeavours 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... (myduckisdead.com)

The life of indomitable Leni Peickert

In 1980 Franz Josef Strauss competed against Helmut Schmidt for the Office of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany. (imdb)

A reinvention of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, set in contemporary Manila as a rock musical.

For Happy Lamento, Kluge mixed some of his weirder TV skits on electricity, the circus, revolution and early cinema (featuring Fassbinder-regular Peter Berling, theatre genius Heiner Müller, and DaDaism's last man standing, Helge Schneider, among others) with some of the more outrageous scenes from Khavn's 2016 Ang Napakaigsing Buhay Ng Alipato. Some 2017 G20 shots of Merkel and Trump et al inject the already heady brew with current affairs urgency. Expect the unexpected! (iffr.com)

Documentary on madness in mad times.

A metatextual exploration of the Edison film of the same name.

A film by songwriter Wolf Biermann lights the wishes and realities of a divided Germany. The images shows the confrontation between students and police on the streets. (Filmaffinity)