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Alexander KlugeA TRIBUTE TO AN INDEPENDENT SPIRIT |
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ARTISTS UNDER THE BIG TOP: PERPLEXED, THE [ARTISTEN IN DER ZIRKUSKUPPEL: RATLOS, DIE]
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Director: Alexander Kluge |
The artist Leni (Hannelore Hoger) plans the circus of the future. She wants to show the animals authentically and not as dressed-up people. In the face of this inhuman situation, the artists are to increase the degree of difficulty of their art. But her plan goes awry. She approaches a television company as she looks upon her knowledge of the technique of this art as a basis for her attempts to change her world. Parable made by Alexander Kluge. |
ASSAULT OF THE PRESENT ON THE REST OF TIME, THE [ANGRIFF DER GEGENWART AUF DIE UEBRIGE ZEIT, DER]
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Director: Alexander Kluge |
An episode film that "bids farewell to classical cinema" (A. Kluge). Fragments of reality that all still strictly follow one thought - how one moment in time can swallow up everything that has happened beforehand and afterwards. There's the daughter of the porter couple in Warsaw who surrenders herself to a German soldier in order to preserve the historical Polish film treasures. There is the completely indispensable one, who suddenly becomes unnecessary because the boss prefers someone else. There are the hurried ones, who restlessly rush around the world in order to make decisions that are constantly becoming less meaningful. There is the young surrogate mother, who doesn't want to give back the child until the parental guardians listen to her suggestions on how to care for it. And ... |
CANDIDATE, THE [KANDIDAT, DER]
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Director: Alexander Kluge; Volker Schlöndorff; Stefan Aust; Alexander von Eschwege |
Made with an eye to "Germany in Autumn", 1980, when the parliamentary elections take place, the motion picture, "The Candidate", examines Germany's history past and present and the man who, as CDU/CSU candidate, hopes to be elected to the most important in the land, Franz Josef Strauß. In this elaborate documentary, a cooperative venture by four German directors (Stefan Aust, Alexander Kluge, Alexander von Eschwege and Volker Schlöndorff) both CSU politician Strauß's past performance and his activities on the political stage are examined and placed in the appropriate frame of reference by committed film auteurs. A contribution to the discussions in this election year, with information that will most likely not be shown on television. A film which, even after the election is past history, ... |
MIDDLE OF THE ROAD IS A VERY DEAD END, THE [IN GEFAHR UND GROESSTER NOT BRINGT DER MITTELWEG DEN TOD]
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Director: Alexander Kluge; Edgar Reitz |
The story of Inge who steals from her lover and secret agent Rita is blended with reports of activity in Frankfurt which include the annual Mardi Gras, police action against the occupation of homes slated for demolition, and the clash at the convention of the German Labour Party. The fragmented nature of society presents each individual with differing aspects of an illusive total reality. |
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS [VERMISCHTE NACHRICHTEN]
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Director: Alexander Kluge |
With his film, Alexander Kluge has seized upon a genre that originated in the tabloid press: "Miscellaneous News", those items that don't make it to the front page but that are willingly read after thumbing through the last page. More often than not, they are more fascinating, entertaining, thought-provoking or funnier than the actual headline story. Kluge's "last page" introduces us to Max, the waiter, who enters into a fictitous marriage with a woman from Senegal for money - with two women in their final hours - with a case of death at the wrong time - with the lie of Nina Petrowa - with two brothers in the Stalingrad "cauldron" - with a retrospect of the days in the summers of 1914, 1923, 1939 and 1986 (when not only the sun was shining). |
OCCASIONAL WORK OF A FEMALE SLAVE [GELEGENHEITSARBEIT EINER SKLAVIN]
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Director: Alexander Kluge |
Practising as abortionist Roswitha supports her family to be able to afford more children herself. For a provision she directs complicated cases into the hands of a well known doctor. When Roswitha claims payment, she is thrown out. Her competitor made a mistake but Roswitha is being blamed for it. She obliterates all traces but her husband gets arrested instead. He is released and has to support the family now himself. Roswitha looks for new possibilities: she engages in politics. Looking out for opportunities to fight actively, she discovers that her husband's factory plans to shut down. In secret research and travelling she documents the shutting down, an intention meanwhile abandoned by the company's president. She hands out leaflets. Her husband is fired. Now it's Roswitha's turn ... |
PATRIOTIC WOMAN, THE [PATRIOTIN, DIE]
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Director: Alexander Kluge |
This is the way Alexander Kluge outlines his film: "The viewer knows the character of the history teacher Gabi Teichert from GERMANY IN AUTUMN. In that movie, there is a scene in a snowy landscape. Gabi Teichert is digging. Subsequently, I made the movie THE PATRIOT. Again, it is about Gabi Teichert. Now she is digging deeper. Everyone knows how to handle cars or pieces of wood; but how can the history of our beautiful country be handled? In her search, Gabi Teichert deals with wartime bombings, the party congress of the German Social Democratic Party, she searches to find the meaning of the body, comes into conflict with her superiors, encounters myths, verifies the relation of a love story to history, etc.: And she does it all in a hands-on, practical manner." Gabi Teichert mourns for ... |
POWER OF EMOTIONS, THE [MACHT DER GEFUEHLE, DIE]
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Director: Alexander Kluge |
A collage film made out of fiction scenes, documentary images, old records and extracts from Opera music. It plays with ideas and associations, thus giving knowledge about human emotions with all their destructive and creative power. A film about the connection between the ordinary, myths and politics. |
SERPENTINE GALLERY PROGRAM (original title)
Director: Alexander Kluge |
The "Serpentine Gallery Program" consists of a series of short films by Alexander Kluge. The repertory selection, in this form, was shown for the first time in the summer of 2006 at the Serpentine Gallery in London's Hyde Park. - Short films (6:34 min) - Der flexible Unternehmer: Fred Eicke, bone meal manufacturer, knows a way out (15:05 min) - Die Liebe stört der kalte Tod - Balladen-Magazin Nr. 9 (24:08 Min) - Wer immer hofft, stirbt singend - Why current horrors can be so calming (15:06 min) - Eine Frau wie ein Vulkan - Das Finale I in Bellinis Meisterwerk NORMA (15:06 min) - Als Offizier und Philosoph - Eberhard von Erbst, Nietzsche-researcher and Major (24:05 min) - Rennen (9:00 min) - Protokoll einer Revolution ( 12:00 min) |
STRONGMAN FERDINAND [STARKE FERDINAND, DER]
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Director: Alexander Kluge |
Ferdinand, a former criminal inspector, takes a job as a chief security officer at a large factory, because he thinks that there he can realize his concept of justice, order and total control, unchecked. His security policy escapades reach grotesque proportions and ultimately endanger the security of the operation more than any potential enemy ever could. |