
Alexander Kluge
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Alexander Kluge (born 14 February 1932) 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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The Big Mess (1971)
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Germany in Autumn (1978)
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Japanclips (1988)
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Policeman's Lot (1965)
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Engine Cough (1996)
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Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen! (2001)
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The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time (1985)
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Yesterday Girl (1967)
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Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave (1973)
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Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse (2010)
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The Power of Emotion (1983)
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Why Are You Crying, Antonio? (1988)
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Fassbinder's Funeral (2015)
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Auf Messers Schneide: das Jahr 1929 (2026)
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In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death (1974)
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Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmt (1967)
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Utopie der Oper (2026)
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News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The Capital (2008)
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Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard (2000)
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Der Deutschland-Komplex (2009)
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E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher (1968)
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War and Peace (1982)
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Die Liebe stört der kalte Tod (2026)
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Brutality in Stone (1961)
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Heterotopie der Oper (2026)
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Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (1968)
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The Officer as a Philosopher (2005)
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Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908 (1973)
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Primitive Diversity (2025)
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The Eiffel Tower, King Kong and the White Woman (1988)
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Nachrichten von den Staufern (1977)
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Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, wo sind sie geblieben? (2015)
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The Last of the Mohicans (1993)
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Learning Processes with a Deadly Outcome (1998)
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Happy Lamento (2018)
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The Flexible Entrepreneur (2001)
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Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour (1983)
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The Voice of the Playwright (1995)
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A Doctor From Haberstadt (1970)
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Rennfahrer (1961)
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An Experiment in Love (1998)
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Five Hours Parsifal in 90 Seconds (1998)
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Strongman Ferdinand (1976)
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Das gab’s nur einmal (2006)
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Rennen (1961)
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Wild Night with Moon (1990)
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Protocol of a Revolution (1963)
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Nachrichten vom Großen Krieg (2014)
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Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film (2017)
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The Deadly Triangle (2006)
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We Philosophers from Eve’s Rib (2018)
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The Patriotic Woman (1979)
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The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot (1997)
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Under the Sign of Mars (1994)
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Lehrer im Wandel (1963)
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Biermann-Film (1983)
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Miscellaneous News (1986)
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Omnivore Democracy (1995)
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Frederick of Prussia (1992)
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Sad News (2006)
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Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet (1972)
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Zirkus, Richter’s Tango (2021)
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Light Veins (2014)
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Paper Tiger Television, New York (1989)
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Max Horkheimer – Philosopher and Sociologist (2024)
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Das Phänomen der Oper (2007)
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Reason is a Balancing Animal (2017)
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In the Rock of Signs (2022)
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The Execution of an Elephant (2000)
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Bodenhaftung, Hautnähe, Lot zum Erdmittelpunkt (2019)
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An Opera That Sparked a Revolution (2024)
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Attack on a Thick Glass Door (2024)
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Rome, as Far Away as the Moon (1991)
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Der schwedische Mozart (1998)
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Mind, Power, Castration (1993)
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Dancing with Pictures (2017)
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Zirkus im Krieg (2018)
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The Indomitable Leni Peickert (1970)
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The Candidate (1980)
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Chicago in Time Lapse (1996)
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The World is Not Bad, but Full (1994)
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The Day Is Nigh (1997)
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Eomaia (Mother of the Dawn) (2024)
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Parsifal verlernen (2017)
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Spinoza und die Modi Gottes (—)
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Lied der Medea (2023)
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Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by (1990)
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I Owe the World a Dead Person (1994)
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Happy Root From Non-Identity (2024)
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News from the 1966 Venice Film Festival (1966)
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Orphea (2021)
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Storm Over Egypt (2006)
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The Revolution is a Creature Full of Surprises (2018)
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For Vertov (1998)
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Über Unterschiede beim Sprechen: 20 Beispiele (—)
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Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre Anfänge (1990)
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Früchte des Vertrauens (2009)
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Weltmacht Staub. Hartmut Bitomsky über einen unbesiegbaren Zustand der Materie (2008)
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Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath (1989)
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Ort und zeit ohne grund ist gewalt (1998)
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Neonröhren des Himmels (1998)
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Thema Amore (1961)
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Trump State Visit (2020)
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He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded (1996)
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At Work in the Ruins of Morality (—)
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Die Frau auf dem Schlachtfeld (2006)
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Spaceflight as an Internal Experience (1999)
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The Poetic Power of Theory (2007)
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Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday (1989)
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Planetary Man (2024)
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The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 1941 (2020)
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My Rendezvous with Death (1995)
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Sergej Eisenstein Stages Alexander Newski (1938) and Wagner‘s Walküre (1940) (2022)
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Theorie der Erzählung (2013)
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Changing Time (Quickly) (1988)
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People Preparing the Staufer Anniversary (1977)
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Multiple Images for Five Projectors (2007)
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A Woman Like a Volcano (2003)
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Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management (1996)
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Madame Butterfly Waits (1988)
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Beginnings of Film Art (2024)
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Every Frozen Structure has its Academy (1991)
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Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day (1995)
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La Habanera (2006)
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String Cinema – Mathematical Minute Opera (2024)
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Der Gärtner von Nürnberg (2017)
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Sam Remembers Papa Kong (2006)
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Veränderung ist das Salz des Vergnügens (2019)
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Antiques of Advertising (1988)
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Als die Himmel noch miteinander sprachen (2011)
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Love in a spacesuit (—)
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Das Prinzip Stadt. Oskar Negt über die "Stadt in uns" (2008)
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Rigor Was His Mark of Quality (2012)
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The African Lady, or Love with a Fatal Outcome (1988)
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The most beautiful treasure of evolution (—)
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Heiner Müller in Time Flight (1996)
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Blue Hour Tango Time (1988)
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Moby Dick – Godzilla – Fukushima (2014)
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Mein Jahrhundert, mein Tier! (2007)
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The Death of Seneca (1993)
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100 Years of the German Rhine (1998)
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Der Zirkus kommt in die Stadt (2018)
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Heiner Müller on Legal Questions (1990)
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Anti-Opera (1993)
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Die Festwagen der Großen Französischen Revolution (2020)
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The Magic of the Darkened Soul (2007)
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Cosmic Miniatures (2024)
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Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer Hand (2012)
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He Who Hopes, Dies Singing (1999)
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On the Way to a Theater of Darknesses (1995)
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The Trickiness of Peace Treaties (2006)
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Nach jedem Untergang kommt ein Dampfer (2006)
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La Paloma (2006)
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Plowshare of Evil (1993)
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Werewolves Playoffs (2020)
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Im Sturm der Zeit - Facts & Fakes (2007)
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16 Minute-films (2006)
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A Poker Game (1966)
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Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love” (1995)
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Hommage zu Manoel de Oliveiras Film-Oper Os Canibais (2021)
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“Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History” (1991)
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Rettung vor dem Tode / 4000 Jahre Liebe / Rettet Liebe vor dem Tode? (—)
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Rule a Great Country as You Would Fry Small Fish (1993)
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Pretty Woman and other stories, a film with Alexander Kluge (2012)
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Mehrfachbilder Vielfalt Fuenfalt ohne blaues Ende (2017)
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From 9 a.m. to Early the Next Morning Columbus Sailed Straight Ahead Westwards (2006)
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Serpentine Gallery Program (2006)
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Die Guillotine oder die Kategorie der Plötzlichkeit (1988)
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Das Liegerlied (1988)
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Headless Man (2008)
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Woher stammt das Lied "Die Fahne hoch"? (1994)
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The Time That Must Pass Before the Audience Takes an Initiative (2008)
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Bleib steh'n, Wanderer, und lies (1996)
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Nur Gott hat zugesehen (2002)
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N.Y. Ground Zero (2002)
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Raubengel (2008)
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Der Untergang der Titanic (2003)
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Solange die Notenblätter reichen (1994)
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Die Rache der betrogenen Braut (1994)
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Die neun Unzertrennlichen (—)
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Amok. Das Ende der Einfühlung (—)
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High on Work (1997)
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Clinton's Chief Economist (—)
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Postheroic Management (1999)
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"50 Knuckles of Pork is About Right" (2007)
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The Bridge Crosser (2007)
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Happy Easter (1998)
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Camp Money (1995)
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The Belshazzar Project (1999)
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Rette sich, wer kann (2003)
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A Farewell to the Secure Side of Life (2002)
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"The Wind Will Clean It Off" (1996)
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Soviet Patriots of 1941 (1991)
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Attention: Total Loss! (2001)
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"The Burning Giraffe" (2007)
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Only Cans Were Saved (2003)
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Sense below the Sense (2008)
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