Movies: Kairos Film
- 1978
Germany in Autumn (1978)
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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 Germany during the late 1970s. The movie covers the two month time period during 1977 when a businessman w...
- 1974
In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death (1974)
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Combining fictional and documentary modes, the film takes a critical stance toward Frankfurt's public sphere and urban redevelopment. Despite the serious formal and political concerns of the film, Kluge's heightened sense of the absurd safeguards a r...
- 1967
Yesterday Girl (1967)
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A young German woman searches for happiness, liberation, and independence in the illusive wake of a transformative national recovery....
- 1999
Spaceflight as an Internal Experience (1999)
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Short science fiction film, a companion piece to Kluge's Der Große Verhau and Willi Tobler und der Untergang der 6. Flotte....
- 1970
The Indomitable Leni Peickert (1970)
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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 work, seemingly assembled from leftover footage from the longer film, continues the story of the circ...
- 1973
Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave (1973)
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Roswitha runs an illegal abortion clinic in Frankfurt to support her student husband and children. When she is forced to close her practice she delves into political and social activism....
- 1968
Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (1968)
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A young circus director ends up going into television after her father, a trapeze performer, dies in a circus accident....
- 2024
Cosmic Miniatures (2024)
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At 91 years of age, Alexander Kluge is solidly regarded as a trailblazing figure in New German Cinema and the avant-garde. He remains active and curious about media, so it’s no wonder that he recently began experimenting with artificial intelligence....
- 1986
Miscellaneous News (1986)
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A drama that strings together vignettes of events taken from everyday newspaper headlines. Germans are shown in their reactions to World War II, minorities, and the elderly. A side plot follows a meeting between former West German Chancellor Helmut S...
- 1976
Strongman Ferdinand (1976)
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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...
- 1985
The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time (1985)
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A poignant film essay about 'superfluous people' facing up to a moment of crisis in their lives....
- 2010
Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse (2010)
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- 1971
The Big Mess (1971)
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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 dealings, smuggling and spaceship wrecking....
- 1979
The Patriotic Woman (1979)
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Gabi Teichert, a history teacher, is unhappy with the way history is portrayed in textbooks and is looking for an alternative, more practical approach to 'uncovering' the past, quite literally digging with the spade and dissecting books with hammers ...
- 1982
Krieg und Frieden (1982)
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The third episodical film, after Deutschland im Herbst and Der Kandidat, in which notable German film makers reflect on the state of their country....
- 1970
A Doctor From Haberstadt (1970)
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Alexander Kluge follows his father, a doctor, in his daily activity....
- 2009
A Man of Confidence: Ralf Otterpohl, Water Specialist (2009)
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Documentary short by Romuald Karmakar....
- 2021
Orphea (2021)
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A reinvention of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, set in contemporary Manila as a rock musical....
- 1980
The Candidate (1980)
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Made with an eye to the autumn of 1980 when the German parliamentary elections took place, The Candidate examines Germany’s history past and present and Franz Josef Strauß, the man who, as the CDU/CSU candidate, aspires to be elected to the most impo...
- 1983
The Power of Emotion (1983)
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The emotion and feelings should not be confused with sentimentality. Emotion is ancient and more powerful than any artistic expression. The film observes young couples face difficulties while trying to move their love experiences clear decision makin...