Brutality in Stone
Brutality in Stone

Brutality in Stone

6.8(10 votes)
1961
0h 12m
War
Documentary
History

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

Cast

Hans Clarin

Hans Clarin

Narrator

Christian Marschall

Christian Marschall

Narrator

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