Alexander Kluge (born 14 February 1932) is 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.
Filmography (160 movies)
8.0
8.0
Policeman's Lot
1965
Director
7.5
7.5
News from the 1966 Venice Film Festival
1966
Director
7.0
7.0
The Klimperclown
2025
as Self
6.9
6.9
The Big Mess
1971
Director
6.8
6.8
Brutality in Stone
1961
Producer
6.8
6.8
Nachrichten aus der ideologischen Antike: Marx/Eisenstein/Das Kapital
2008
Director
6.7
6.7
The Patriotic Woman
1979
Writer
6.5
6.5
For Vertov
1998
Director
6.3
6.3
Yesterday Girl
1967
Producer
6.2
6.2
Germany in Autumn
1978
Director
6.0
6.0
Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer Hand
2012
Director
6.0
6.0
Lehrer im Wandel
1963
Director
6.0
6.0
Die Frau auf dem Schlachtfeld
2006
Director
6.0
6.0
Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmt
1967
Director
6.0
6.0
Rennen
1961
Director
5.8
5.8
The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time
1985
Director
5.8
5.8
Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed
1968
Writer
5.7
5.7
SnowwhiteRosered
1991
as Self
5.5
5.5
Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias
2018
as Self
5.5
5.5
Werner Nekes - Life Between the Pictures
2017
as Self
5.5
5.5
Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour
1983
Writer
5.5
5.5
The Indomitable Leni Peickert
1970
Writer
5.5
5.5
Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave
1973
Writer
5.4
5.4
Strongman Ferdinand
1976
Writer
5.3
5.3
People Preparing the Staufer Anniversary
1977
Writer
5.3
5.3
The Execution of an Elephant
2000
Director
5.2
5.2
Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet
1972
Writer
5.2
5.2
Spaceflight as an Internal Experience
1999
Director
5.0
5.0
The Night of the Filmmakers
1995
as Self
5.0
5.0
E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher
1968
Director
5.0
5.0
The Candidate
1980
Writer
4.7
4.7
In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death
1974
Writer
4.6
4.6
The Journey to Vienna
1973
Writer
4.5
4.5
The Day Is Nigh
1997
Director
4.0
4.0
Orphea
2021
Producer
3.7
3.7
The Power of Emotion
1983
Director
3.0
3.0
Cosmic Miniatures
2024
Director
2.7
2.7
Miscellaneous News
1986
Writer
2.0
2.0
War and Peace
1982
Director
Theorie der Erzählung
2013
Director
Alle Gefühle glauben an einen glücklichen Ausgang
2002
as Self
Nuits transparentes
2011
Adorno - Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im falschen
1989
as Self
Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse
2010
Director
Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love”
1995
Director
Reform Circus
1970
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
2022
as Self
The Heart and the Legs
1989
as Self
Finite and Infinite Games
TBA
as Himself
On the Holy Spirit
2016
Multiple Images for Five Projectors
2007
Director
Dancing with Pictures
2017
Director
Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film
2017
Director
An Opera of the World
2017
as Himself
Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard
2000
Director
Die Erben von Papas Kino
1968
...Geist und ein wenig Glück
1965
as Himself
The Officer as a Philosopher
2005
Director
Der schwedische Mozart
1998
Director
Zwischen Mitternacht und der vierten Nachtstunde
2006
Director
Nach jedem Untergang kommt ein Dampfer
2006
Director
Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday
1989
Director
At Work in the Ruins of Morality
TBA
Director
Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath
1989
Director
Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by
1990
Director
Heiner Müller on Legal Questions
1990
Director
Rome, as Far Away as the Moon
1991
Director
Every Frozen Structure has its Academy
1991
Director
“Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History”
1991
Director
Frederick of Prussia
1992
Director
Mind, Power, Castration
1993
Director
The Last of the Mohicans
1993
Director
Plowshare of Evil
1993
Director
The Death of Seneca
1993
Director
Anti-Opera
1993
Director
Under the Sign of Mars
1994
Director
I Owe the World a Dead Person
1994
Director
The World is Not Bad, but Full
1994
Director
My Rendezvous with Death
1995
Director
The Voice of the Playwright
1995
Director
Omnivore Democracy
1995
Director
On the Way to a Theater of Darknesses
1995
Director
Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day
1995
Director
He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded
1996
Director
Heiner Müller in Time Flight
1996
Director
Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management
1996
Director
The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot
1997
Director
Rigor Was His Mark of Quality
2012
Director
Mehrfachbilder Vielfalt Fuenfalt ohne blaues Ende
TBA
Director
Hommage zu Manoel de Oliveiras Film-Oper Os Canibais
2021
Director
Weltmacht Staub. Hartmut Bitomsky über einen unbesiegbaren Zustand der Materie
2008
Director
Das Prinzip Stadt. Oskar Negt über die "Stadt in uns"
2008
Director
The Eiffel Tower, King Kong and the White Woman
1988
Director
Beginnings of Film Art
2024
Director
Planetary Man
2024
Director
Eomaia (Mother of the Dawn)
2024
Director
Zirkus, Richter’s Tango
2021
Director
In the Rock of Signs
2022
Director
Reason is a Balancing Animal
2022
Director
Max Horkheimer – Philosopher and Sociologist
2024
Director
The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 1941
2020
Director
The Revolution is a Creature Full of Surprises
2018
Director
An Opera That Sparked a Revolution
2024
Director
We Philosophers from Eve’s Rib
2018
Director
Sergej Eisenstein Stages Alexander Newski (1938) and Wagner‘s Walküre (1940)
2022
Director
Attack on a Thick Glass Door
2024
Director
String Cinema – Mathematical Minute Opera
2024
Director
Happy Root From Non-Identity
2024
Director
Light Veins
2014
Director
Paper Tiger Television, New York
1989
Director
Primitive Diversity
2025
Producer
Parsifal verlernen
2017
Director
Chicago in Time Lapse
1996
Director
Werewolves Playoffs
2020
Director
Nachrichten vom Großen Krieg
2014
Director
Blind Love – Talk with Jean-Luc Godard
2001
Director
16 Minute-films
2006
Director
An Experiment in Love
1998
Director
A Doctor From Haberstadt
1970
Writer
Nachrichten von den Staufern
1977
Writer
Protocol of a Revolution
1963
Writer
Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908
1973
Writer
Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre Anfänge
1990
Writer
Mein Jahrhundert, mein Tier!
2007
Director
Im Sturm der Zeit - Facts & Fakes
2007
Director
Das Phänomen der Oper
2007
Director
The Magic of the Darkened Soul
2007
Director
The Poetic Power of Theory
2007
Director
Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904)
1970
Producer
Happy Lamento
2018
Screenplay
Früchte des Vertrauens
2009
Director
Der Deutschland-Komplex
2009
Director
La Paloma
2006
Director
Über Unterschiede beim Sprechen: 20 Beispiele
TBA
Director
Rettung vor dem Tode / 4000 Jahre Liebe / Rettet Liebe vor dem Tode?
TBA
Director
Veränderung ist das Salz des Vergnügens
2019
Director
Moby Dick – Godzilla – Fukushima
2014
Director
The Leaks of Venice
2020
Producer
Als die Himmel noch miteinander sprachen
2011
Director
A Poker Game
1966
Director
Rennfahrer
1961
Producer
Thema Amore
1961
Writer
Sam Remembers Papa Kong
2006
Director
Five Hours Parsifal in 90 Seconds
1998
Producer
Pretty Woman and other stories, a film with Alexander Kluge