Alexander Kluge
Directing
Born February 14, 1932 · Halberstadt, Germany
257 films as director · Active 1961–2026
Alexander Kluge (14 February 1932 - 25 March 2026) was a German author, philosopher, academic and film director. Kluge became known in the 1960s and 1970s as one of the most influential representativ…
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Directed(257)
2026Die Liebe stört der kalte Tod2026Utopie der Oper2026Heterotopie der Oper2026Auf Messers Schneide: das Jahr 1929
2025Primitive Diversity
2024Cosmic Miniatures★ 3.0
2024Eomaia (Mother of the Dawn)
2024Planetary Man
2024Max Horkheimer – Philosopher and Sociologist
2024An Opera That Sparked a Revolution2024Attack on a Thick Glass Door
2024String Cinema – Mathematical Minute Opera
2024Happy Root From Non-Identity
2024Beginnings of Film Art2023Lied der Medea
2022In the Rock of Signs
2022Sergej Eisenstein Stages Alexander Newski (1938) and Wagner‘s Walküre (1940)2021Hommage zu Manoel de Oliveiras Film-Oper Os Canibais
2021Zirkus, Richter’s Tango
2021Orphea★ 4.0
2020The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 19412020Werewolves Playoffs2020Die Festwagen der Großen Französischen Revolution2020Trump State Visit2019Veränderung ist das Salz des Vergnügens2019Bodenhaftung, Hautnähe, Lot zum Erdmittelpunkt
2018The Revolution is a Creature Full of Surprises
2018We Philosophers from Eve’s Rib
2018Happy Lamento2018Der Zirkus kommt in die Stadt2018Zirkus im Krieg2017Mehrfachbilder Vielfalt Fuenfalt ohne blaues Ende
2017Dancing with Pictures
2017Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film
2017Reason is a Balancing Animal
2017Parsifal verlernen2017Der Gärtner von Nürnberg2015Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, wo sind sie geblieben?2015Fassbinder's Funeral2015"They killed our friends..."
2014Light Veins
2014Nachrichten vom Großen Krieg
2014Moby Dick – Godzilla – Fukushima★ 10.0
2013Theorie der Erzählung2012Rigor Was His Mark of Quality
2012Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer Hand★ 6.02012Pretty Woman and other stories, a film with Alexander Kluge2011Als die Himmel noch miteinander sprachen
2010Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse2009Der Deutschland-Komplex
2009Früchte des Vertrauens
2008News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The Capital★ 6.82008Weltmacht Staub. Hartmut Bitomsky über einen unbesiegbaren Zustand der Materie2008Das Prinzip Stadt. Oskar Negt über die "Stadt in uns"2008Headless Man2008The Time That Must Pass Before the Audience Takes an Initiative2008Raubengel2008Sense below the Sense2008Evolution in the Universe2008Man is the Soft Target2008Who Am "I"? Peer Gynt2008Fifi2008The Siamese Hands
2007Das Phänomen der Oper
2007The Poetic Power of Theory2007Mein Jahrhundert, mein Tier!2007Im Sturm der Zeit - Facts & Fakes2007The Magic of the Darkened Soul
2007Multiple Images for Five Projectors2007"50 Knuckles of Pork is About Right"2007The Bridge Crosser2007"The Burning Giraffe"2007War is the End of all Plans2007The Magical World of Evolution2007The Car is your Second Skin2007The Safety of the President2007The Deterrent2007The Opera Doctor2007I Lived for my Art2007What Does "Good Will" Mean?2007The Gentle Makeup of Light New 65 mm minute shorts2007Love Makes You Perceptive!2007Megastars of the Art of Love2006Sad News2006Das gab’s nur einmal
2006La Habanera2006Storm Over Egypt2006The Deadly Triangle2006The Trickiness of Peace Treaties2006Nach jedem Untergang kommt ein Dampfer2006From 9 a.m. to Early the Next Morning Columbus Sailed Straight Ahead Westwards2006Die Frau auf dem Schlachtfeld★ 6.0
2006La Paloma
200616 Minute-films
2006Sam Remembers Papa Kong2006Serpentine Gallery Program2006Primal Ocean and Snowball Earth2006On Laughing and Walking Upright2006Flexible Memory2006Borderline Cases of Damage Control2006The Greatest Treasure of Evolution2005The Officer as a Philosopher2005As a Military Judge in November 19182005Women as Warriors2005"Surplus Value" & its Images2005The Moon Has Risen2005Thinking for Oneself2005The Black Market of Love2004Freedom for the Consonants!2004A Tear for Every Drop of Blood2003A Woman Like a Volcano2003Der Untergang der Titanic2003Rette sich, wer kann2003Only Cans Were Saved2003First the Music, then the Words2002Nur Gott hat zugesehen2002N.Y. Ground Zero2002A Farewell to the Secure Side of Life2002What is War?2002Darklings Sing Bass2001The Flexible Entrepreneur2001Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen!2001Attention: Total Loss!2001True Love on the Front2001The Holding of Skulls is not My Thing!2001Dance on the Volcano2001The Kiss of Death2001"Love Pain Like Mute Fish"2000Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard2000The Execution of an Elephant★ 5.32000August 19142000The Sahara Became Swampland1999He Who Hopes, Dies Singing
1999Spaceflight as an Internal Experience★ 5.21999Postheroic Management1999The Belshazzar Project1999Snapshots for my Fiancé1999"With all the Wealth of my Needs"1999The Deluge1999Nietzsches fröhliche Wissenschaft1999My Love is Deeper than the Sea1998Learning Processes with a Deadly Outcome1998Neonröhren des Himmels
1998100 Years of the German Rhine1998Der schwedische Mozart
1998For Vertov★ 6.51998An Experiment in Love
1998Five Hours Parsifal in 90 Seconds1998Ort und zeit ohne grund ist gewalt1998Happy Easter1998"Of which we cannot speak we must sing!"1998The Mute Girl of Portici1998I Come Every Morning for Sex1998Desire that Rules the World1997The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot
1997The Day Is Nigh★ 4.51997High on Work
1996Chicago in Time Lapse1996Engine Cough1996Heiner Müller in Time Flight1996He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded1996Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management1996Bleib steh'n, Wanderer, und lies1996"The Wind Will Clean It Off"1995Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love”1995My Rendezvous with Death1995Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day1995Omnivore Democracy1995The Voice of the Playwright1995On the Way to a Theater of Darknesses1995Camp Money1995Zoo Animals in War1995Love as Passion1994Under the Sign of Mars1994The World is Not Bad, but Full1994I Owe the World a Dead Person1994Woher stammt das Lied "Die Fahne hoch"?1994Solange die Notenblätter reichen1994Die Rache der betrogenen Braut1994Die neun Unzertrennlichen1994"80,000 Operas!"1993Rule a Great Country as You Would Fry Small Fish1993Mind, Power, Castration1993The Last of the Mohicans1993Anti-Opera1993Plowshare of Evil1993The Death of Seneca1992Frederick of Prussia1992"I Confess!" Day-Trip Shopping Excursion1992"The Screeching Sound of Power as Soon as it Puts on the Brakes"1992Soprano versus Bass1991Rome, as Far Away as the Moon1991“Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History”1991Every Frozen Structure has its Academy1991Soviet Patriots of 19411990Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by1990Heiner Müller on Legal Questions1990Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre Anfänge
1990Wild Night with Moon1990Darwin and the Tank1990Richard Wagner and the Law of Ruin Value in Music1989Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday1989Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath
1989Paper Tiger Television, New York★ 6.0
1988The Eiffel Tower, King Kong and the White Woman1988Antiques of Advertising1988Madame Butterfly Waits1988Why Are You Crying, Antonio?1988Japanclips1988Blue Hour Tango Time1988Changing Time (Quickly)1988The African Lady, or Love with a Fatal Outcome1988Die Guillotine oder die Kategorie der Plötzlichkeit1988The Pilot's Song1988The Death of Lucretia
1986Miscellaneous News★ 3.8
1985The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time★ 6.4
1983The Power of Emotion★ 4.81983Biermann-Film★ 9.01983Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour★ 6.3
1982War and Peace★ 4.5
1980The Candidate★ 6.0
1979The Patriotic Woman★ 7.1
1978Germany in Autumn★ 6.41977People Preparing the Staufer Anniversary★ 6.21977Nachrichten von den Staufern★ 10.0
1976Strongman Ferdinand★ 6.0
1974In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death★ 5.0
1973Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave★ 5.9
1973Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908★ 9.0
1972Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet★ 5.9
1971The Big Mess★ 7.0
1970The Indomitable Leni Peickert★ 6.0
1970A Doctor From Haberstadt★ 7.0
1968Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed★ 5.81968E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher★ 6.0
1967Yesterday Girl★ 6.5
1967Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmt★ 7.5
1966News from the 1966 Venice Film Festival★ 7.51966A Poker Game1965Policeman's Lot★ 8.71964Portrait d'une mise à l'épreuve1963Protocol of a Revolution
1963Lehrer im Wandel★ 7.5
1961Brutality in Stone★ 7.11961Rennen★ 7.51961Thema Amore1961Rennfahrer—At Work in the Ruins of Morality—Rettung vor dem Tode / 4000 Jahre Liebe / Rettet Liebe vor dem Tode?—Über Unterschiede beim Sprechen: 20 Beispiele—Spinoza und die Modi Gottes—Love in a spacesuit—The most beautiful treasure of evolution—Amok. Das Ende der Einfühlung—Clinton's Chief Economist
Acting(36)
2025The Klimperclown
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2022Come with Me to the Cinema – The GregorsFilm
2020Wim Wenders, DesperadoFilm
2018Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other UtopiasFilm
2017Werner Nekes - Life Between the PicturesFilm
2017An Opera of the WorldFilm
2017Dancing with PicturesFilm
2017Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a FilmFilm
2016On the Holy SpiritFilm
2013Theorie der ErzählungFilm
2012PrechtTV
2011Nuits transparentesFilm
2010Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horseFilm
2008Counter Shot: Departure of the FilmmakersFilm
2007Multiple Images for Five ProjectorsFilm
2003druckfrischTV
2002Alle Gefühle glauben an einen glücklichen AusgangFilm
2001Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen!Film
2000Literatur im FoyerTV
2000Ich war Hitlers BodyguardFilm
1998Sternstunde PhilosophieTV
1998Alpha ForumTV
1998LebensläufeTV
1995KulturzeitTV
1995The Night of the FilmmakersFilm
1995Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love”Film
1991SnowwhiteRoseredFilm
1989The Heart and the LegsFilm
1989Adorno - Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im falschenFilm
1970Reform CircusFilm
1968Die Erben von Papas KinoFilm
1965...Geist und ein wenig GlückFilm
1964Grimme AwardTV
1951German Film AwardTV
1948BambiTV
Finite and Infinite GamesFilm