Brutality in Stone

Brutalität in Stein

Overview

In his experimental short film "Brutalität in Stein" (Brutality in Stone), Alexander Kluge demonstrates how Nazi architecture used dimensions of inhuman and super-human scale to bolster the regime's politics of the same kind. Shots of huge neo-classical architectural structures from the Nazi period are confronted with equally anti-human national-socialist language as a voice-over.

Production

Peter Schamoni Film, Alexander Kluge Filmproduktion, Dieter Lemmel Kurzfilmproduktion