This movie was intense and funny in its analysis of a restless gifted person. She was an abortionist. The very bizarre close examination of the work she did includes a jaw dropping opening that makes it appear that the film was shot during the events as they actually happened. She is keeping her family together but then loses interest and becomes a rabble rouser for workers in a chemistry plant. She helps them keep their jobs when the threat of moving the plant to Portugal comes to light, but of course, gets her husband fired when they identify her as the agitator.
In the end she opens a stand at the plant selling sausages wrapped in union pamphlets... Very funny, even the abortion clinic segment where she converts it into a veterinary clinic after she coaxes a dog to break through the police tape for her. Great basic film-making!

This little patchwork of car-racing archive footage tries to show the symbolic meaning of a race regarding the mechanization of the world. Technic is more and more about to control the humans, and not backwards. This truly "not new" assumptions remember to the "Frankfurter Schule" with their critics on mechanization. Some of you maybe remember Jürgen Habermas "colonializaton of the "Lebenswelt"!

A very critical short about education systems and teacher. Illustrated with examples and text. Pay attention to this teaching form of film, with criticizes teacher.
Teachers through Change is a suite of four short portraits of teachers whose lives have been profoundly affected by historical events. Each laconic life story is told through a series of old photographs separated by titles. Some are progressive educators victimized by the Nazis; one is a vicious opportunist who benefited from the fascist takeover. Their lives are implicitly contrasted with those of ordinary, bureaucratized teachers today, whom we see in cinema-verite footage taken at a teachers' convention, school meetings, and so on. The interruptions in the biographies figure the larger interruptions history makes in the lives of human beings (this is also a theme of a book of stories, Lebensldufe [Curricula Vitae], Kluge published in 1962). The dispersed narrative focus and the formal discontinuities resist the homogenizing narrative strategies of the culture in- dustry and presage the method of "antagonistic realism" Kluge later formulates in discursive terms.

A mini-sequel to German director Alexander Kluge's 1968 Golden Lion winner Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed, The Indomitable Leni Peickert continues the slice-of-life tale of down-on-her-luck Peickert (Hannelore Hoger), who in that earlier film (many will remember) made the mistake of investing in a "socially relevant" circus that failed to draw crowds - and quickly found herself in financial hot water. In this particular outing, she begins by working on television, then gets fired for smuggling an explicit, uncensored film - and promptly returns to the circus, while remaining footloose and unsettled. Intriguingly, this film does not represent a sequel to Big Top per se, but actually works in material that Kluge originally intended for that earlier outing.

Alexander Kluge’s News from Ideological Antiquity begins with Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein’s ambitious but unrealized plan to combine Karl Marx’s Capital and James Joyce’s Ulysses. For over nine hours, the film expands in concentric circles as Kluge, his guests, interlocutors and monologists make associative links on a range of topics that starts from a filmic discussion of Eisenstein’s notes.

Miscellaneous News are on the last page of the newspapers. With little oversight from editorial offices but with great emotional fuel.

In the first century of the third millennium, a galactic civil war is raging between governments, industrial giants and space pirates. Run for your lives! The Big Mess features space captain Douglas, the pirate couple sterr, a space admiral and countless other characters trying to eke out a living in the cosmos. But whenever they get anywhere , they find they've been beaten to it by monopolist enterprises.
In Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet, Willi endeavours to survive in a world where annihilistic galactic battles rage, by taking a job at the centre of power. But it's wrong side that he takes in this civil war.

In the first century of the third millennium, a galactic civil war is raging between governments, industrial giants and space pirates. Run for your lives! The Big Mess features space captain Douglas, the pirate couple sterr, a space admiral and countless other characters trying to eke out a living in the cosmos. But whenever they get anywhere , they find they've been beaten to it by monopolist enterprises.
In Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet, Willi endeavours to survive in a world where annihilistic galactic battles rage, by taking a job at the centre of power. But it's wrong side that he takes in this civil war.

一名妓女兼小偷同一名西德女间谍穿行于1974年的法兰克福。时值狂欢节。与此同时，警察正在暴力清赶强占空楼的学生。克鲁格：“电影名字‘危急时中道致死’取自我们当时在被强占空楼的地下室墙上的一处涂鸦。”

In his experimental short film "Brutalität in Stein" (Brutality in Stone), Alexander Kluge demonstrates how Nazi architecture used dimensions of inhuman and super-human scale to bolster the regime's politics of the same kind. Shots of huge neo-classical architectural structures from the Nazi period are confronted with equally anti-human national-socialist language as a voice-over.

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

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

The clownish security chief of a West German business is obsessed with protecting his factory from fancied and real breaches, especially from groups such as The Red Army Faction. Ferdinand's paranoia and methods can't be contained by his company. The sympathetically-drawn Ferdinand's ludicrous actions recall those of the cynical, disastrous axis between fascism and big business in 1930's Europe: satire of the rise of private security.

The last films for cinema by Alexander Kluge. Both tell about a dozen stories which complement one another by creating a context. The Blind Director: A young doctor feels that she is redundant. People hurry around. A family sits in front of the computer as if it were a fire in the hearth. A kindergarten teacher is supposed to turn a child over to its legal guardians. The blind director. The present becomes inflammed. Without prior events, the future and particularly a sense of the possible, there is no reality.

克鲁格与卡文的第二次合作是一次美学混搭。在首次合作的影片《快乐哀叹》中，这两位卓越的导演使用了他们档案中的材料，而《奥菲亚》则有了新的内容，尽管是古典的来源。奥尔菲斯和尤里迪斯的预兆和结局都发生了变化：在卡文和克鲁格那里，奥尔菲斯下到冥界，不仅要解放她的尤里迪科，还要解放整个灭绝的人类。在克鲁格的绿幕工作室和大都市马尼拉之间，把一切都在桌上摆放：里尔克和阿多诺，柴可夫斯基和摇滚，猛犸象和不朽。

Nine fictitious documentaries and films reflect the mood of late 1970s Germany, particularly the two-month period in 1977 when a businessman was kidnapped by the RAF (Red Army Faction). The kidnap had been made to orchestrate the release of the original leaders of the RAF, aka the Baader-Meinhof.