Brutality in Stone

Brutality in Stone

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6.8 / 10

12min / February 8, 1961

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Description
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 Companies
Peter Schamoni Film
Peter Schamoni Film
Alexander Kluge Filmproduktion
Alexander Kluge Filmproduktion
Dieter Lemmel Kurzfilmproduktion
Dieter Lemmel Kurzfilmproduktion