Alexander Kluge: Part of the series Images of World War One
Wednesday, 1 October 2014, 7pm
Goethe-Institut London, 50 Princes Gate, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2PH
(£3 / free for Goethe-Institut language students and library members, booking essential
Booking at +44 20 75964000; info@london.goethe.org)
In an evening of screenings, readings and discussion, Alexander Kluge, one of Germany’s most significant and versatile intellectual figures since the 1960s, will present his film News from the Great War 1914–1918. He will also read selected short stories and talk with Germanist and film historian Martin Brady of King’s College London about his work.
Divided into more than 30 sequences, the film assembles archive material, interviews with historians such as Christopher Clark and Gerd Krumeich, as well as conversations with historical figures played by actors to reflect on the First World War. In his typical inquisitive mode, he traces curious aspects of the war and explores what relevance it has for us today. The war that introduced devastating new weapons and involved countries as far away as Afghanistan, also had an impact on Kluge’s own family.
Germany 2014. Colour, 94 mins. With English subtitles. Directed by Alexander Kluge. With Helge Schneider, Gerd Krumeich, Christopher Clark, Peter Berling, Hannelore Hoger, Alexander Will, Alaric Searle, Max Kaube.
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