Alexander Kluge
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- February 14, 1932
- Died
- March 25, 2026 (aged 94)
- Birthplace
- Halberstadt, Germany
Biography
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 Indian Tomb
Germany in Autumn
Yesterday Girl
Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed
Brutality in Stone
In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death
Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave
The Big Mess
Strongman Ferdinand
The Patriotic Woman
Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet
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Filmography
At Work in the Ruins of Morality
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Rettung vor dem Tode / 4000 Jahre Liebe / Rettet Liebe vor dem Tode?
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Über Unterschiede beim Sprechen: 20 Beispiele
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Spinoza und die Modi Gottes
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Love in a spacesuit
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The most beautiful treasure of evolution
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Amok. Das Ende der Einfühlung
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Clinton's Chief Economist
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Die Liebe stört der kalte Tod
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Utopie der Oper
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Heterotopie der Oper
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Auf Messers Schneide: das Jahr 1929
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Primitive Diversity
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Cosmic Miniatures
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Eomaia (Mother of the Dawn)
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Planetary Man
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Max Horkheimer – Philosopher and Sociologist
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An Opera That Sparked a Revolution
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Attack on a Thick Glass Door
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String Cinema – Mathematical Minute Opera
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Happy Root From Non-Identity
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Beginnings of Film Art
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Lied der Medea
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In the Rock of Signs
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Sergej Eisenstein Stages Alexander Newski (1938) and Wagner‘s Walküre (1940)
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Hommage zu Manoel de Oliveiras Film-Oper Os Canibais
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Zirkus, Richter’s Tango
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Orphea
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The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 1941
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Werewolves Playoffs
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Die Festwagen der Großen Französischen Revolution
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Trump State Visit
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Veränderung ist das Salz des Vergnügens
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Bodenhaftung, Hautnähe, Lot zum Erdmittelpunkt
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The Revolution is a Creature Full of Surprises
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We Philosophers from Eve’s Rib
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Happy Lamento
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Der Zirkus kommt in die Stadt
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Zirkus im Krieg
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Mehrfachbilder Vielfalt Fuenfalt ohne blaues Ende
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Dancing with Pictures
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Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film
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Reason is a Balancing Animal
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Parsifal verlernen
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Der Gärtner von Nürnberg
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Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, wo sind sie geblieben?
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Fassbinder's Funeral
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"They killed our friends..."
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Light Veins
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Nachrichten vom Großen Krieg
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Moby Dick – Godzilla – Fukushima
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Theorie der Erzählung
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Rigor Was His Mark of Quality
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Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer Hand
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Pretty Woman and other stories, a film with Alexander Kluge
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Als die Himmel noch miteinander sprachen
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Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse
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Der Deutschland-Komplex
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Früchte des Vertrauens
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News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The Capital
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Weltmacht Staub. Hartmut Bitomsky über einen unbesiegbaren Zustand der Materie
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Das Prinzip Stadt. Oskar Negt über die "Stadt in uns"
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Headless Man
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The Time That Must Pass Before the Audience Takes an Initiative
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Raubengel
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Sense below the Sense
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Evolution in the Universe
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Man is the Soft Target
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Who Am "I"? Peer Gynt
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Fifi
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The Siamese Hands
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Das Phänomen der Oper
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The Poetic Power of Theory
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Mein Jahrhundert, mein Tier!
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Im Sturm der Zeit - Facts & Fakes
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The Magic of the Darkened Soul
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Multiple Images for Five Projectors
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"50 Knuckles of Pork is About Right"
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The Bridge Crosser
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"The Burning Giraffe"
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War is the End of all Plans
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The Magical World of Evolution
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The Car is your Second Skin
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The Safety of the President
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The Deterrent
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The Opera Doctor
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I Lived for my Art
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What Does "Good Will" Mean?
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The Gentle Makeup of Light New 65 mm minute shorts
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Love Makes You Perceptive!
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Megastars of the Art of Love
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Sad News
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Das gab’s nur einmal
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La Habanera
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Storm Over Egypt
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The Deadly Triangle
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The Trickiness of Peace Treaties
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Nach jedem Untergang kommt ein Dampfer
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From 9 a.m. to Early the Next Morning Columbus Sailed Straight Ahead Westwards
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Die Frau auf dem Schlachtfeld
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La Paloma
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16 Minute-films
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Sam Remembers Papa Kong
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Serpentine Gallery Program
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Primal Ocean and Snowball Earth
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On Laughing and Walking Upright
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Flexible Memory
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Borderline Cases of Damage Control
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The Greatest Treasure of Evolution
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The Officer as a Philosopher
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As a Military Judge in November 1918
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Women as Warriors
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"Surplus Value" & its Images
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The Moon Has Risen
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Thinking for Oneself
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The Black Market of Love
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Freedom for the Consonants!
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A Tear for Every Drop of Blood
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A Woman Like a Volcano
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Der Untergang der Titanic
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Rette sich, wer kann
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Only Cans Were Saved
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First the Music, then the Words
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Nur Gott hat zugesehen
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N.Y. Ground Zero
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A Farewell to the Secure Side of Life
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What is War?
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Darklings Sing Bass
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The Flexible Entrepreneur
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Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen!
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Attention: Total Loss!
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True Love on the Front
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The Holding of Skulls is not My Thing!
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Dance on the Volcano
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The Kiss of Death
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"Love Pain Like Mute Fish"
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Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard
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The Execution of an Elephant
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August 1914
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The Sahara Became Swampland
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He Who Hopes, Dies Singing
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Spaceflight as an Internal Experience
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Postheroic Management
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The Belshazzar Project
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Snapshots for my Fiancé
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"With all the Wealth of my Needs"
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The Deluge
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Nietzsches fröhliche Wissenschaft
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My Love is Deeper than the Sea
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Learning Processes with a Deadly Outcome
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Neonröhren des Himmels
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100 Years of the German Rhine
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Der schwedische Mozart
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For Vertov
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An Experiment in Love
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Five Hours Parsifal in 90 Seconds
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Ort und zeit ohne grund ist gewalt
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Happy Easter
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"Of which we cannot speak we must sing!"
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The Mute Girl of Portici
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I Come Every Morning for Sex
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Desire that Rules the World
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The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot
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The Day Is Nigh
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High on Work
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Chicago in Time Lapse
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Engine Cough
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Heiner Müller in Time Flight
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He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded
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Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management
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Bleib steh'n, Wanderer, und lies
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"The Wind Will Clean It Off"
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Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love”
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My Rendezvous with Death
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Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day
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Omnivore Democracy
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The Voice of the Playwright
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On the Way to a Theater of Darknesses
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Camp Money
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Zoo Animals in War
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Love as Passion
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Under the Sign of Mars
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The World is Not Bad, but Full
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I Owe the World a Dead Person
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Woher stammt das Lied "Die Fahne hoch"?
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Solange die Notenblätter reichen
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Die Rache der betrogenen Braut
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Die neun Unzertrennlichen
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"80,000 Operas!"
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Rule a Great Country as You Would Fry Small Fish
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Mind, Power, Castration
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The Last of the Mohicans
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Anti-Opera
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Plowshare of Evil
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The Death of Seneca
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Frederick of Prussia
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"I Confess!" Day-Trip Shopping Excursion
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"The Screeching Sound of Power as Soon as it Puts on the Brakes"
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Soprano versus Bass
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Rome, as Far Away as the Moon
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“Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History”
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Every Frozen Structure has its Academy
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Soviet Patriots of 1941
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Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by
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Heiner Müller on Legal Questions
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Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre Anfänge
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Wild Night with Moon
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Darwin and the Tank
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Richard Wagner and the Law of Ruin Value in Music
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Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday
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Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath
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Paper Tiger Television, New York
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The Eiffel Tower, King Kong and the White Woman
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Antiques of Advertising
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Madame Butterfly Waits
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Why Are You Crying, Antonio?
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Japanclips
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Blue Hour Tango Time
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Changing Time (Quickly)
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The African Lady, or Love with a Fatal Outcome
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Die Guillotine oder die Kategorie der Plötzlichkeit
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The Pilot's Song
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The Death of Lucretia
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Miscellaneous News
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The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time
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The Power of Emotion
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Biermann-Film
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Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour
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War and Peace
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The Candidate
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The Patriotic Woman
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Germany in Autumn
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People Preparing the Staufer Anniversary
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Nachrichten von den Staufern
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Strongman Ferdinand
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In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death
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Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave
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Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908
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Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet
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The Big Mess
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The Indomitable Leni Peickert
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A Doctor From Haberstadt
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Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed
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E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher
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Yesterday Girl
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Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmt
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News from the 1966 Venice Film Festival
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A Poker Game
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Policeman's Lot
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Portrait d'une mise à l'épreuve
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Protocol of a Revolution
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Lehrer im Wandel
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Brutality in Stone
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Rennen
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Thema Amore
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Rennfahrer
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The Indian Tomb
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The Tiger of Eschnapur
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