Brutality in Stone

Brutality in Stone

12 mins | Documentary, War, History | Feb. 8, 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.

Brutality in Stone

12 mins | Documentary, War, History | Feb. 8, 1961

Brutality in Stone
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.
IMDb rating 7.2
Producers Peter Schamoni Film, Alexander Kluge Filmproduktion, Dieter Lemmel Kurzfilmproduktion
Original title Brutalität in Stein
Directors Peter Schamoni, Alexander Kluge
Writers Peter Schamoni, Alexander Kluge

Cast

Hans Clarin

as Narrator

Christian Marschall

as Narrator