
Alexander Kluge
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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.
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Germany in Autumn (1978)
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Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (1968)
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Die Liebe stört der kalte Tod (2026)
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Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen! (2001)
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Fassbinder's Funeral (2015)
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Auf Messers Schneide: das Jahr 1929 (2026)
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Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse (2010)
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Der Deutschland-Komplex (2009)
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The Big Mess (1971)
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Strongman Ferdinand (1976)
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Japanclips (1988)
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Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmt (1967)
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The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time (1985)
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News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The Capital (2008)
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In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death (1974)
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The Power of Emotion (1983)
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Policeman's Lot (1965)
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Yesterday Girl (1967)
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Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave (1973)
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Nachrichten vom Großen Krieg (2014)
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100 Years of the German Rhine (1998)
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Rettung vor dem Tode / 4000 Jahre Liebe / Rettet Liebe vor dem Tode? (—)
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Miscellaneous News (1986)
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Why Are You Crying, Antonio? (1988)
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Utopie der Oper (2026)
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E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher (1968)
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Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, wo sind sie geblieben? (2015)
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War and Peace (1982)
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Happy Lamento (2018)
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Only Cans Were Saved (2003)
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Engine Cough (1996)
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The Candidate (1980)
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Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet (1972)
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The Indomitable Leni Peickert (1970)
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“Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History” (1991)
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The Voice of the Playwright (1995)
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Primitive Diversity (2025)
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N.Y. Ground Zero (2002)
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Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath (1989)
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My Rendezvous with Death (1995)
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The Poetic Power of Theory (2007)
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Every Frozen Structure has its Academy (1991)
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We Philosophers from Eve’s Rib (2018)
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He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded (1996)
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Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film (2017)
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Darwin and the Tank (1990)
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Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre Anfänge (1990)
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Spaceflight as an Internal Experience (1999)
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Wild Night with Moon (1990)
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Under the Sign of Mars (1994)
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Sam Remembers Papa Kong (2006)
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The Officer as a Philosopher (2005)
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Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard (2000)
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I Owe the World a Dead Person (1994)
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Reason is a Balancing Animal (2017)
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The Last of the Mohicans (1993)
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Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour (1983)
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Nachrichten von den Staufern (1977)
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Dancing with Pictures (2017)
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Love in a spacesuit (—)
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Happy Root From Non-Identity (2024)
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Heiner Müller in Time Flight (1996)
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Amok. Das Ende der Einfühlung (—)
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The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 1941 (2020)
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The Patriotic Woman (1979)
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Rome, as Far Away as the Moon (1991)
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Rigor Was His Mark of Quality (2012)
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The Day Is Nigh (1997)
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In the Rock of Signs (2022)
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The Deluge (1999)
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Orphea (2021)
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Protocol of a Revolution (1963)
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Learning Processes with a Deadly Outcome (1998)
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"I Confess!" Day-Trip Shopping Excursion (1992)
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People Preparing the Staufer Anniversary (1977)
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Max Horkheimer – Philosopher and Sociologist (2024)
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Das Phänomen der Oper (2007)
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The Time That Must Pass Before the Audience Takes an Initiative (2008)
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The Mute Girl of Portici (1998)
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News from the 1966 Venice Film Festival (1966)
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At Work in the Ruins of Morality (—)
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Richard Wagner and the Law of Ruin Value in Music (1990)
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"They killed our friends..." (2015)
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Nur Gott hat zugesehen (2002)
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War is the End of all Plans (2007)
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Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management (1996)
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Die Frau auf dem Schlachtfeld (2006)
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A Woman Like a Volcano (2003)
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Das Prinzip Stadt. Oskar Negt über die "Stadt in uns" (2008)
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Soviet Patriots of 1941 (1991)
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Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by (1990)
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The Death of Seneca (1993)
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The Siamese Hands (2008)
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Blue Hour Tango Time (1988)
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"With all the Wealth of my Needs" (1999)
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Sense below the Sense (2008)
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The Car is your Second Skin (2007)
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"The Screeching Sound of Power as Soon as it Puts on the Brakes" (1992)
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The Magic of the Darkened Soul (2007)
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Rette sich, wer kann (2003)
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Megastars of the Art of Love (2007)
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The Gentle Makeup of Light New 65 mm minute shorts (2007)
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The Moon Has Risen (2005)
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Als die Himmel noch miteinander sprachen (2011)
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Brutality in Stone (1961)
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Snapshots for my Fiancé (1999)
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Omnivore Democracy (1995)
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Rennen (1961)
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Paper Tiger Television, New York (1989)
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The most beautiful treasure of evolution (—)
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I Lived for my Art (2007)
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The Eiffel Tower, King Kong and the White Woman (1988)
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Woher stammt das Lied "Die Fahne hoch"? (1994)
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My Love is Deeper than the Sea (1999)
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Mein Jahrhundert, mein Tier! (2007)
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A Doctor From Haberstadt (1970)
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Heiner Müller on Legal Questions (1990)
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Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday (1989)
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Raubengel (2008)
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Pretty Woman and other stories, a film with Alexander Kluge (2012)
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A Farewell to the Secure Side of Life (2002)
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Bleib steh'n, Wanderer, und lies (1996)
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August 1914 (2000)
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True Love on the Front (2001)
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Planetary Man (2024)
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The Kiss of Death (2001)
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Attention: Total Loss! (2001)
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Zirkus, Richter’s Tango (2021)
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Weltmacht Staub. Hartmut Bitomsky über einen unbesiegbaren Zustand der Materie (2008)
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An Opera That Sparked a Revolution (2024)
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Solange die Notenblätter reichen (1994)
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"50 Knuckles of Pork is About Right" (2007)
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Beginnings of Film Art (2024)
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Sergej Eisenstein Stages Alexander Newski (1938) and Wagner‘s Walküre (1940) (2022)
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High on Work (1997)
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Heterotopie der Oper (2026)
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What Does "Good Will" Mean? (2007)
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Bodenhaftung, Hautnähe, Lot zum Erdmittelpunkt (2019)
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Cosmic Miniatures (2024)
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Soprano versus Bass (1992)
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On the Way to a Theater of Darknesses (1995)
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The Belshazzar Project (1999)
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As a Military Judge in November 1918 (2005)
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The Sahara Became Swampland (2000)
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The Deadly Triangle (2006)
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The Execution of an Elephant (2000)
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Who Am "I"? Peer Gynt (2008)
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"Surplus Value" & its Images (2005)
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Moby Dick – Godzilla – Fukushima (2014)
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Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer Hand (2012)
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Die Guillotine oder die Kategorie der Plötzlichkeit (1988)
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The Safety of the President (2007)
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The Opera Doctor (2007)
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Hommage zu Manoel de Oliveiras Film-Oper Os Canibais (2021)
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First the Music, then the Words (2003)
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A Tear for Every Drop of Blood (2004)
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The World is Not Bad, but Full (1994)
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Man is the Soft Target (2008)
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Ort und zeit ohne grund ist gewalt (1998)
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Nach jedem Untergang kommt ein Dampfer (2006)
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The African Lady, or Love with a Fatal Outcome (1988)
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I Come Every Morning for Sex (1998)
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Veränderung ist das Salz des Vergnügens (2019)
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Der Gärtner von Nürnberg (2017)
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Rule a Great Country as You Would Fry Small Fish (1993)
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Mehrfachbilder Vielfalt Fuenfalt ohne blaues Ende (2017)
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Frederick of Prussia (1992)
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"Of which we cannot speak we must sing!" (1998)
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Spinoza und die Modi Gottes (—)
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Storm Over Egypt (2006)
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"The Burning Giraffe" (2007)
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Headless Man (2008)
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"80,000 Operas!" (1994)
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Über Unterschiede beim Sprechen: 20 Beispiele (—)
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"Love Pain Like Mute Fish" (2001)
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The Holding of Skulls is not My Thing! (2001)
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Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love” (1995)
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The Revolution is a Creature Full of Surprises (2018)
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Die Rache der betrogenen Braut (1994)
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Postheroic Management (1999)
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"The Wind Will Clean It Off" (1996)
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Zoo Animals in War (1995)
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Im Sturm der Zeit - Facts & Fakes (2007)
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Love as Passion (1995)
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Eomaia (Mother of the Dawn) (2024)
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The Magical World of Evolution (2007)
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Primal Ocean and Snowball Earth (2006)
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Anti-Opera (1993)
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Attack on a Thick Glass Door (2024)
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Der Untergang der Titanic (2003)
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An Experiment in Love (1998)
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Thinking for Oneself (2005)
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Multiple Images for Five Projectors (2007)
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Biermann-Film (1983)
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The Flexible Entrepreneur (2001)
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Darklings Sing Bass (2002)
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Die neun Unzertrennlichen (1994)
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The Deterrent (2007)
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Antiques of Advertising (1988)
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Chicago in Time Lapse (1996)
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Der Zirkus kommt in die Stadt (2018)
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On Laughing and Walking Upright (2006)
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Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day (1995)
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The Death of Lucretia (1988)
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Theorie der Erzählung (2013)
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The Bridge Crosser (2007)
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Portrait d'une mise à l'épreuve (1964)
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He Who Hopes, Dies Singing (1999)
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Plowshare of Evil (1993)
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The Trickiness of Peace Treaties (2006)
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The Greatest Treasure of Evolution (2006)
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For Vertov (1998)
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Women as Warriors (2005)
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Werewolves Playoffs (2020)
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Five Hours Parsifal in 90 Seconds (1998)
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What is War? (2002)
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Rennfahrer (1961)
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Nietzsches fröhliche Wissenschaft (1999)
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Flexible Memory (2006)
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Parsifal verlernen (2017)
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Die Festwagen der Großen Französischen Revolution (2020)
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Happy Easter (1998)
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Fifi (2008)
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The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot (1997)
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Lehrer im Wandel (1963)
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Desire that Rules the World (1998)
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Borderline Cases of Damage Control (2006)
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Dance on the Volcano (2001)
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La Habanera (2006)
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Freedom for the Consonants! (2004)
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Das gab’s nur einmal (2006)
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Evolution in the Universe (2008)
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Früchte des Vertrauens (2009)
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Mind, Power, Castration (1993)
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Serpentine Gallery Program (2006)
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String Cinema – Mathematical Minute Opera (2024)
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16 Minute-films (2006)
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Lied der Medea (2023)
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Changing Time (Quickly) (1988)
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Madame Butterfly Waits (1988)
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Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908 (1973)
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La Paloma (2006)
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The Pilot's Song (1988)
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Trump State Visit (2020)
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Sad News (2006)
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Thema Amore (1961)
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Der schwedische Mozart (1998)
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From 9 a.m. to Early the Next Morning Columbus Sailed Straight Ahead Westwards (2006)
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Camp Money (1995)
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The Black Market of Love (2005)
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Zirkus im Krieg (2018)
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Light Veins (2014)
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Love Makes You Perceptive! (2007)
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Neonröhren des Himmels (1998)
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A Poker Game (1966)
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Clinton's Chief Economist (—)
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