Heiner Müller Movies

  • 1995
    Unter Deutschen

    Unter Deutschen

    Unter Deutschen

    71995HD

    Unter Deutschen
  • 2009
    Ich will nicht wissen, wer ich bin - Heiner Müller

    Ich will nicht wissen, wer ich bin - Heiner Müller

    Ich will nicht wissen, wer ich bin - Heiner Müller

    02009HD

    This film not only illuminates Heiner Müller's life and works, it is more about questioning the "Sphinx" of the East and its saying about the loss of...

    Ich will nicht wissen, wer ich bin - Heiner Müller
  • 1988
    Keine Hand wäscht die Andere

    Keine Hand wäscht die Andere

    Keine Hand wäscht die Andere

    01988HD

    On the run from her criminal Italian husband, a young French woman meets a German lover in West Berlin who offers her shelter but who also gets entang...

    Keine Hand wäscht die Andere
  • 2024
    At Work in the Ruins of Morality

    At Work in the Ruins of Morality

    At Work in the Ruins of Morality

    02024HD

    Quoting from historian Tacitus' Annals, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller delve into the Roman Iron Age, talk about the modern style of Tacitus' prose...

    At Work in the Ruins of Morality
  • 1991
    Every Frozen Structure has its Academy

    Every Frozen Structure has its Academy

    Every Frozen Structure has its Academy

    01991HD

    At the time of the conversation Heiner Müller was the president of the Academy of Arts - East. At the beginning he describes his daily routine to Klug...

    Every Frozen Structure has its Academy
  • 1991
    Rome, as Far Away as the Moon

    Rome, as Far Away as the Moon

    Rome, as Far Away as the Moon

    01991HD

    Movie scenes, montages of images and text, as well as conversations between Alexander Kluge, playwright Heiner Müller and classicist Wilfried Stroh pr...

    Rome, as Far Away as the Moon
  • 1991
    “Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History”

    “Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History”

    “Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History”

    01991HD

    In this conversation, taking place shortly after the German reunification, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller discuss historical developments from the...

    “Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History”
  • 1993
    Mind, Power, Castration

    Mind, Power, Castration

    Mind, Power, Castration

    01993HD

    Here Müller and Kluge explicitly address a theme that is latently present in many of their conversations: the relation of intellectuals to reigning po...

    Mind, Power, Castration
  • 1989
    Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday

    Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday

    Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday

    01989HD

    This portrait of Heiner Müller on the occasion of his 60th birthday is devoted for the most part to having Müller recount events and memories from the...

    Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday
  • 1989
    Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath

    Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath

    Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath

    01989HD

    In 1989, Heiner Müller staged an unabridged seven-and-a-half hour Hamlet, because in the process of German reunification "a leave-taking from the Haml...

    Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath
  • 1990
    Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by

    Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by

    Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by

    01990HD

    In this interview Müller and Kluge explore the East German’s memories of the final days of the war. The session is introduced by a clip from the Russi...

    Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by
  • 1990
    Heiner Müller on Legal Questions

    Heiner Müller on Legal Questions

    Heiner Müller on Legal Questions

    01990HD

    "The metaphor is cleverer than the author" (Lichtenberg),a "screen," an "instrument for bundling" (Müller),because "everything changes so much" (Ger...

    Heiner Müller on Legal Questions
  • 1992
    Frederick of Prussia

    Frederick of Prussia

    Frederick of Prussia

    01992HD

    Kluge here presents a portrait of Friedrich the Great by means of quotations, film clips, historical images, and film documents. The program is a cont...

    Frederick of Prussia
  • 1993
    The Death of Seneca

    The Death of Seneca

    The Death of Seneca

    01993HD

    Citing Nietzsche, Müller describes the motive of the philologist as "greed," "simply wanting to have everything, grasp everything, know everything." T...

    The Death of Seneca
  • 1994
    Under the Sign of Mars

    Under the Sign of Mars

    Under the Sign of Mars

    01994HD

    This "music magazine" is a montage of visually alienated historical film clips of tanks and soldiers (First and Second World War),pictorial reminisce...

    Under the Sign of Mars
  • 1993
    Plowshare of Evil

    Plowshare of Evil

    Plowshare of Evil

    01993HD

    Citing Nietzsche, Müller defines intellectuals as the "ploughshares of evil," whose task it is "to create chaos, to destroy conceptions of order." Not...

    Plowshare of Evil
  • 1993
    Anti-Opera

    Anti-Opera

    Anti-Opera

    01993HD

    Heiner Müller was invited to a conference in Japan on the fate of opera in the 20th and 21st century. He talks about his flight over Siberia and his f...

    Anti-Opera
  • 1997
    The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot

    The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot

    The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot

    01997HD

    The point of departure for this discussion is the question of whether the collapse of the Soviet Union is dramatic material. Müller answers with this...

    The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot
  • 1993
    The Last of the Mohicans

    The Last of the Mohicans

    The Last of the Mohicans

    01993HD

    A news magazine program on important aspects of the history of postrevolutionary Cuba, consisting of two documentary film sequences about Castro and t...

    The Last of the Mohicans
  • 1994
    The World is Not Bad, but Full

    The World is Not Bad, but Full

    The World is Not Bad, but Full

    01994HD

    The central topic of the interview is the ancient concept of a necessary balance between the dead and the living, which also assumes the notion of a c...

    The World is Not Bad, but Full