Alexandra Kluge

Emotions and feelings should not be confused with sentimentality. Emotion is ancient and more powerful than any artistic expression. The film observes young couples facing difficulties while trying to move their love experiences towards clear decision making. A film full of ideas, details and associations, fictional scenes, documentary footage, archival materials and opera music.

Alexandra Kluge, one of the defining actresses of New German Cinema, died on June 11, 2017, in Berlin. Hanna Laura Klar gives a voice to her famous brother Alexander Kluge, her son Andro Steinborn, and numerous friends and colleagues, revealing the two lives of an extraordinary woman and friend. As Dr. Karen Steinborn, she was just as charismatic as she was as the actress Alexandra Kluge in her brother’s films.

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

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.

A news documentary about the 1966 Venice Film Festival.

Kluge’s short-film starring his sister/muse Alexandra.

Documentary short by Alexander Kluge about the role of teachers in history.