Brutality in Stone (1961)

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.

Released Feb. 8, 1961 12 min None+

Genres: Documentary, History, Short, War

Keywords: tmdb.architecture, mdblist.imdb-short, mdblist.two-actors, tmdb.national-socialism, imdb.new-german-cinema, aspectratio.1-37-1

Production Companies: Peter Schamoni Film, Alexander Kluge Filmproduktion, Dieter Lemmel Kurzfilmproduktion

Country: Germany
Production Country: Germany
Languages: German