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Alexander Kluge

Directing • 1932-02-14 • Halberstadt, Germany

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 representatives of the New German Cinema, which he helped to establish and develop in theory and practice.

Known For

The Tiger of Eschnapur

The Tiger of Eschnapur

1959

The Indian Tomb

The Indian Tomb

1959

Germany in Autumn

Germany in Autumn

1978

Yesterday Girl

Yesterday Girl

1967

Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed

Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed

1968

Brutality in Stone

Brutality in Stone

1961

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Filmography

2026
Die Liebe stört der kalte TodFilm
Director
2026
Auf Messers Schneide: das Jahr 1929Film
Director
2026
Utopie der OperFilm
Director
2026
Heterotopie der OperFilm
Director
2025
Primitive DiversityFilm
Director
2024
Cosmic MiniaturesFilm
Director
★ 3.0
2024
An Opera That Sparked a RevolutionFilm
Director
2024
Happy Root From Non-IdentityFilm
Director
2024
Max Horkheimer – Philosopher and SociologistFilm
Director
2024
Eomaia (Mother of the Dawn)Film
Director
2024
Beginnings of Film ArtFilm
Director
2024
String Cinema – Mathematical Minute OperaFilm
Director
2024
Attack on a Thick Glass DoorFilm
Director
2024
Planetary ManFilm
Director
2023
Lied der MedeaFilm
Director
2022
In the Rock of SignsFilm
Director
2022
Sergej Eisenstein Stages Alexander Newski (1938) and Wagner‘s Walküre (1940)Film
Director
2021
OrpheaFilm
Director
★ 4.0
2021
Zirkus, Richter’s TangoFilm
Director
2021
Hommage zu Manoel de Oliveiras Film-Oper Os CanibaisFilm
Director
2020
The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 1941Film
Director
2020
Die Festwagen der Großen Französischen RevolutionFilm
Director
2020
Trump State VisitFilm
Director
2020
Werewolves PlayoffsFilm
Director
2019
Bodenhaftung, Hautnähe, Lot zum ErdmittelpunktFilm
Director
2019
Veränderung ist das Salz des VergnügensFilm
Director
2018
The Revolution is a Creature Full of SurprisesFilm
Director
2018
We Philosophers from Eve’s RibFilm
Director
2018
Happy LamentoFilm
Director
2018
Der Zirkus kommt in die StadtFilm
Director
2018
Zirkus im KriegFilm
Director
2017
Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a FilmFilm
Director
2017
Reason is a Balancing AnimalFilm
Director
2017
Dancing with PicturesFilm
Director
2017
Mehrfachbilder Vielfalt Fuenfalt ohne blaues EndeFilm
Director
2017
Der Gärtner von NürnbergFilm
Director
2017
Parsifal verlernenFilm
Director
2015
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, wo sind sie geblieben?Film
Director
2015
"They killed our friends..."Film
Director
2015
Fassbinder's FuneralFilm
Director
2014
Moby Dick – Godzilla – FukushimaFilm
Director
★ 10.0
2014
Nachrichten vom Großen KriegFilm
Director
2014
Light VeinsFilm
Director
2013
Theorie der ErzählungFilm
Director
2012
Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer HandFilm
Director
★ 6.0
2012
Pretty Woman and other stories, a film with Alexander KlugeFilm
Director
2012
Rigor Was His Mark of QualityFilm
Director
2011
Als die Himmel noch miteinander sprachenFilm
Director
2010
Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horseFilm
Director
2009
Der Deutschland-KomplexFilm
Director
2009
Früchte des VertrauensFilm
Director
2008
News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The CapitalFilm
Director
★ 6.8
2008
Weltmacht Staub. Hartmut Bitomsky über einen unbesiegbaren Zustand der MaterieFilm
Director
2008
Sense below the SenseFilm
Director
2008
Who Am "I"? Peer GyntFilm
Director
2008
Headless ManFilm
Director
2008
Man is the Soft TargetFilm
Director
2008
Das Prinzip Stadt. Oskar Negt über die "Stadt in uns"Film
Director
2008
The Time That Must Pass Before the Audience Takes an InitiativeFilm
Director
2008
Evolution in the UniverseFilm
Director
2008
The Siamese HandsFilm
Director
2008
FifiFilm
Director
2008
RaubengelFilm
Director
2007
Das Phänomen der OperFilm
Director
2007
War is the End of all PlansFilm
Director
2007
Multiple Images for Five ProjectorsFilm
Director
2007
The Poetic Power of TheoryFilm
Director
2007
Love Makes You Perceptive!Film
Director
2007
The Magic of the Darkened SoulFilm
Director
2007
Mein Jahrhundert, mein Tier!Film
Director
2007
What Does "Good Will" Mean?Film
Director
2007
The Safety of the PresidentFilm
Director
2007
The Gentle Makeup of Light New 65 mm minute shortsFilm
Director
2007
I Lived for my ArtFilm
Director
2007
The DeterrentFilm
Director
2007
Im Sturm der Zeit - Facts & FakesFilm
Director
2007
The Car is your Second SkinFilm
Director
2007
"The Burning Giraffe"Film
Director
2007
"50 Knuckles of Pork is About Right"Film
Director
2007
Megastars of the Art of LoveFilm
Director
2007
The Opera DoctorFilm
Director
2007
The Bridge CrosserFilm
Director
2007
The Magical World of EvolutionFilm
Director
2006
Die Frau auf dem SchlachtfeldFilm
Director
★ 6.0
2006
Sam Remembers Papa KongFilm
Director
2006
La HabaneraFilm
Director
2006
Primal Ocean and Snowball EarthFilm
Director
2006
Das gab’s nur einmalFilm
Director
2006
The Greatest Treasure of EvolutionFilm
Director
2006
The Trickiness of Peace TreatiesFilm
Director
2006
Serpentine Gallery ProgramFilm
Director
2006
From 9 a.m. to Early the Next Morning Columbus Sailed Straight Ahead WestwardsFilm
Director
2006
La PalomaFilm
Director
2006
16 Minute-filmsFilm
Director
2006
On Laughing and Walking UprightFilm
Director
2006
Flexible MemoryFilm
Director
2006
Storm Over EgyptFilm
Director
2006
Nach jedem Untergang kommt ein DampferFilm
Director
2006
The Deadly TriangleFilm
Director
2006
Sad NewsFilm
Director
2006
Borderline Cases of Damage ControlFilm
Director
2005
The Officer as a PhilosopherFilm
Director
2005
As a Military Judge in November 1918Film
Director
2005
The Moon Has RisenFilm
Director
2005
"Surplus Value" & its ImagesFilm
Director
2005
Women as WarriorsFilm
Director
2005
The Black Market of LoveFilm
Director
2005
Thinking for OneselfFilm
Director
2004
Freedom for the Consonants!Film
Director
2004
A Tear for Every Drop of BloodFilm
Director
2003
Der Untergang der TitanicFilm
Director
2003
Rette sich, wer kannFilm
Director
2003
First the Music, then the WordsFilm
Director
2003
A Woman Like a VolcanoFilm
Director
2003
Only Cans Were SavedFilm
Director
2002
N.Y. Ground ZeroFilm
Director
2002
A Farewell to the Secure Side of LifeFilm
Director
2002
Nur Gott hat zugesehenFilm
Director
2002
Darklings Sing BassFilm
Director
2002
What is War?Film
Director
2001
Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen!Film
Director
2001
The Flexible EntrepreneurFilm
Director
2001
True Love on the FrontFilm
Director
2001
Dance on the VolcanoFilm
Director
2001
"Love Pain Like Mute Fish"Film
Director
2001
The Holding of Skulls is not My Thing!Film
Director
2001
Attention: Total Loss!Film
Director
2001
The Kiss of DeathFilm
Director
2000
The Execution of an ElephantFilm
Director
★ 5.3
2000
Ich war Hitlers BodyguardFilm
Director
2000
The Sahara Became SwamplandFilm
Director
2000
August 1914Film
Director
1999
Spaceflight as an Internal ExperienceFilm
Director
★ 5.2
1999
"With all the Wealth of my Needs"Film
Director
1999
He Who Hopes, Dies SingingFilm
Director
1999
My Love is Deeper than the SeaFilm
Director
1999
Snapshots for my FiancéFilm
Director
1999
Postheroic ManagementFilm
Director
1999
The Belshazzar ProjectFilm
Director
1999
Nietzsches fröhliche WissenschaftFilm
Director
1999
The DelugeFilm
Director
1998
For VertovFilm
Director
★ 6.5
1998
100 Years of the German RhineFilm
Director
1998
The Mute Girl of PorticiFilm
Director
1998
Five Hours Parsifal in 90 SecondsFilm
Director
1998
Learning Processes with a Deadly OutcomeFilm
Director
1998
Desire that Rules the WorldFilm
Director
1998
Ort und zeit ohne grund ist gewaltFilm
Director
1998
I Come Every Morning for SexFilm
Director
1998
"Of which we cannot speak we must sing!"Film
Director
1998
Der schwedische MozartFilm
Director
1998
Happy EasterFilm
Director
1998
An Experiment in LoveFilm
Director
1998
Neonröhren des HimmelsFilm
Director
1997
The Day Is NighFilm
Director
★ 4.5
1997
High on WorkFilm
Director
1997
The Poet as Metaphor SlingshotFilm
Director
1996
Epic Theater & Post-heroic ManagementFilm
Director
1996
Heiner Müller in Time FlightFilm
Director
1996
He Who Smokes Looks Cold-BloodedFilm
Director
1996
Bleib steh'n, Wanderer, und liesFilm
Director
1996
Engine CoughFilm
Director
1996
"The Wind Will Clean It Off"Film
Director
1996
Chicago in Time LapseFilm
Director
1995
Queen of Hearts on Judgment DayFilm
Director
1995
On the Way to a Theater of DarknessesFilm
Director
1995
Zoo Animals in WarFilm
Director
1995
The Voice of the PlaywrightFilm
Director
1995
My Rendezvous with DeathFilm
Director
1995
Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love”Film
Director
1995
Omnivore DemocracyFilm
Director
1995
Love as PassionFilm
Director
1995
Camp MoneyFilm
Director
1994
I Owe the World a Dead PersonFilm
Director
1994
Under the Sign of MarsFilm
Director
1994
The World is Not Bad, but FullFilm
Director
1994
Solange die Notenblätter reichenFilm
Director
1994
Woher stammt das Lied "Die Fahne hoch"?Film
Director
1994
Die Rache der betrogenen BrautFilm
Director
1994
"80,000 Operas!"Film
Director
1994
Die neun UnzertrennlichenFilm
Director
1993
The Death of SenecaFilm
Director
1993
Anti-OperaFilm
Director
1993
The Last of the MohicansFilm
Director
1993
Mind, Power, CastrationFilm
Director
1993
Rule a Great Country as You Would Fry Small FishFilm
Director
1993
Plowshare of EvilFilm
Director
1992
"I Confess!" Day-Trip Shopping ExcursionFilm
Director
1992
Frederick of PrussiaFilm
Director
1992
Soprano versus BassFilm
Director
1992
"The Screeching Sound of Power as Soon as it Puts on the Brakes"Film
Director
1991
“Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History”Film
Director
1991
Soviet Patriots of 1941Film
Director
1991
Rome, as Far Away as the MoonFilm
Director
1991
Every Frozen Structure has its AcademyFilm
Director
1990
Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre AnfängeFilm
Director
1990
Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing byFilm
Director
1990
Wild Night with MoonFilm
Director
1990
Heiner Müller on Legal QuestionsFilm
Director
1990
Richard Wagner and the Law of Ruin Value in MusicFilm
Director
1990
Darwin and the TankFilm
Director
1989
Paper Tiger Television, New YorkFilm
Director
★ 6.0
1989
Conversation with Heiner Müller in GarathFilm
Director
1989
Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th BirthdayFilm
Director
1988
JapanclipsFilm
Director
1988
Why Are You Crying, Antonio?Film
Director
1988
The Eiffel Tower, King Kong and the White WomanFilm
Director
1988
Die Guillotine oder die Kategorie der PlötzlichkeitFilm
Director
1988
The African Lady, or Love with a Fatal OutcomeFilm
Director
1988
The Death of LucretiaFilm
Director
1988
Blue Hour Tango TimeFilm
Director
1988
Antiques of AdvertisingFilm
Director
1988
Changing Time (Quickly)Film
Director
1988
Madame Butterfly WaitsFilm
Director
1988
The Pilot's SongFilm
Director
1986
Miscellaneous NewsFilm
Director
★ 3.8
1985
The Assault of the Present on the Rest of TimeFilm
Director
★ 6.4
1983
Looking for a Practical and Realistic BehaviourFilm
Director
★ 6.3
1983
The Power of EmotionFilm
Director
★ 4.8
1983
Biermann-FilmFilm
Director
★ 9.0
1982
War and PeaceFilm
Director
★ 4.5
1980
The CandidateFilm
Director
★ 6.0
1979
The Patriotic WomanFilm
Director
★ 7.1
1978
Germany in AutumnFilm
Director
★ 6.4
1977
People Preparing the Staufer AnniversaryFilm
Director
★ 6.2
1977
Nachrichten von den StaufernFilm
Director
★ 10.0
1976
Strongman FerdinandFilm
Director
★ 6.0
1974
In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to DeathFilm
Director
★ 5.0
1973
Part-Time Work of a Domestic SlaveFilm
Director
★ 5.9
1973
Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908Film
Director
★ 9.0
1972
Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th FleetFilm
Director
★ 5.9
1971
The Big MessFilm
Director
★ 7.0
1970
The Indomitable Leni PeickertFilm
Director
★ 6.0
1970
A Doctor From HaberstadtFilm
Director
★ 7.0
1968
Artists Under the Big Top: PerplexedFilm
Director
★ 5.8
1968
E. A. Winterstein, Fire ExtinguisherFilm
Director
★ 6.0
1967
Yesterday GirlFilm
Director
★ 6.5
1967
Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmtFilm
Director
★ 7.5
1966
News from the 1966 Venice Film FestivalFilm
Director
★ 7.5
1966
A Poker GameFilm
Director
1965
Policeman's LotFilm
Director
★ 8.7
1964
Portrait d'une mise à l'épreuveFilm
Director
1963
Lehrer im WandelFilm
Director
★ 7.5
1963
Protocol of a RevolutionFilm
Director
1961
Brutality in StoneFilm
Director
★ 7.1
1961
RennenFilm
Director
★ 7.5
1961
Thema AmoreFilm
Director
1961
RennfahrerFilm
Director
1959
The Tiger of EschnapurFilm
Assistant Director
★ 6.3
1959
The Indian TombFilm
Assistant Director
★ 6.1