From Kairos-Film Studios

Germany in Autumn does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of...

Alexander Kluge follows his father, a doctor, in his daily activity.

Roswitha runs an illegal abortion clinic in Frankfurt to support her student husband and children. When she is forced to close her practice she...

A young circus director ends up going into television after her father, a trapeze performer, dies in a circus accident.

A young German woman searches for happiness, liberation, and independence in the illusive wake of a transformative national recovery.

The emotion and feelings should not be confused with sentimentality. Emotion is ancient and more powerful than any artistic expression. The film...

The Indomitable Leni Peickert is a loose, half-hour sequel to Alexander Kluge's second feature film, Artists in the Big Top: Perplexed. This shorter...

A poignant film essay about 'superfluous people' facing up to a moment of crisis in their lives.

Gabi Teichert, a history teacher, is unhappy with the way history is portrayed in textbooks and is looking for an alternative, more practical...

Outer space in 2034 is run by greedy corporations in a rundown bureaucracy. Two astronauts, who are not very smart, make their way with shady...

Made with an eye to the autumn of 1980 when the German parliamentary elections took place, The Candidate examines Germany’s history past and...

The third episodical film, after Deutschland im Herbst and Der Kandidat, in which notable German film makers reflect on the state of their country.

The clownish security chief of a West German business is obsessed with protecting his factory from fancied and real breaches, especially from groups...

Short science fiction film, a companion piece to Kluge's Der Große Verhau and Willi Tobler und der Untergang der 6. Flotte.

A drama that strings together vignettes of events taken from everyday newspaper headlines. Germans are shown in their reactions to World War II,...

An old building in Venice hosts an exhibition. A visitor walks through empty rooms discovering a fictionalized architectural space that functions...

Combining fictional and documentary modes, the film takes a critical stance toward Frankfurt's public sphere and urban redevelopment. Despite the...

Alexander Kluge reflects on the medieval Staufer dynasty and draws a line from Emperor Barbarossa to Operation Barbarossa.

Early Alexander Kluge short film that follows the career of a German policeman from World War I into the 1960s.