Heiner Müller Movies

  • 1993
    The Last of the Mohicans

    The Last of the Mohicans

    The Last of the Mohicans

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    A news magazine program on important aspects of the history of postrevolutionary Cuba, consisting of two documentary film sequences about Castro and...

    The Last of the Mohicans
  • 1981
    Kino 81

    Kino 81

    Kino 81

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    Kino 81
  • 1991
    Every Frozen Structure has its Academy

    Every Frozen Structure has its Academy

    Every Frozen Structure has its Academy

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    At the time of the conversation Heiner Müller was the president of the Academy of Arts - East. At the beginning he describes his daily routine...

    Every Frozen Structure has its Academy
  • 1996
    Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management

    Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management

    Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management

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    The discussion begins with the parable of a frog in boiling water. It comes from the book "Post-heroic Management: A Manual" by Dirk Baecker, which...

    Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management
  • 1996
    Heiner Müller in Time Flight

    Heiner Müller in Time Flight

    Heiner Müller in Time Flight

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    Müller describes Ovid's Metamorphoses, Golding's translation of which (1603) was one of Shakespeare's sources, as an encyclopedia of the Greek...

    Heiner Müller in Time Flight
  • 1995
    Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day

    Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day

    Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day

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    The horizon of this conversation is marked by Müller's personal memories, reflections about ongoing themes in his work, thoughts about his...

    Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day
  • 1970
    Hamletmachine

    Hamletmachine

    Hamletmachine

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    A filmed Musical adaption of Heiner Müller's 1977 play HAMLETMACHINE preformed at The Castillo Theater in 2002.

    Hamletmachine
  • 2012
    Rigor Was His Mark of Quality

    Rigor Was His Mark of Quality

    Rigor Was His Mark of Quality

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    Heiner Müller defines Stoicism as an attempt to deal with anarchy. For him, Erich Honecker is an example for "forced stoicism". Müller...

    Rigor Was His Mark of Quality
  • 1995
    My Rendezvous with Death

    My Rendezvous with Death

    My Rendezvous with Death

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    The title of the interview is from a line in a poem written by an American about the battle of Ypern in World War I: “My rendezvous with Death...

    My Rendezvous with Death
  • 1989
    Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday

    Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday

    Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday

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    This portrait of Heiner Müller on the occasion of his 60th birthday is devoted for the most part to having Müller recount events and...

    Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday
  • 1993
    The Death of Seneca

    The Death of Seneca

    The Death of Seneca

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    Citing Nietzsche, Müller describes the motive of the philologist as "greed," "simply wanting to have everything, grasp everything, know...

    The Death of Seneca
  • 1997
    The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot

    The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot

    The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot

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    The point of departure for this discussion is the question of whether the collapse of the Soviet Union is dramatic material. Müller answers with...

    The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot
  • 1990
    Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by

    Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by

    Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by

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    In this interview Müller and Kluge explore the East German’s memories of the final days of the war. The session is introduced by a clip...

    Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by
  • 1989
    Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath

    Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath

    Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath

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    In 1989, Heiner Müller staged an unabridged seven-and-a-half hour Hamlet, because in the process of German reunification "a leave-taking from...

    Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath
  • 1995
    Omnivore Democracy

    Omnivore Democracy

    Omnivore Democracy

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    In this journal, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller talk about the dark side and the inevitability of democracy. Heiner Müller believes that...

    Omnivore Democracy
  • 1993
    Anti-Opera

    Anti-Opera

    Anti-Opera

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    Heiner Müller was invited to a conference in Japan on the fate of opera in the 20th and 21st century. He talks about his flight over Siberia and...

    Anti-Opera
  • 1995
    The Voice of the Playwright

    The Voice of the Playwright

    The Voice of the Playwright

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    One of Müllers's vocal cords was paralyzed as a result of a life-saving radical operation (1995). At the beginning of the discussion Müller...

    The Voice of the Playwright
  • 1990
    Heiner Müller on Legal Questions

    Heiner Müller on Legal Questions

    Heiner Müller on Legal Questions

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    "The metaphor is cleverer than the author" (Lichtenberg), a "screen," an "instrument for bundling" (Müller), because "everything changes so...

    Heiner Müller on Legal Questions