Heiner Müller Movies

A series of poems.

Documentary by Thomas Heise filmed in East Berlin in 1987/88.

Imaged manifestations revealed within a finite geographic space, limited by the insignificant actions of their characters.

Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars is an in-depth documentation of Robert Wilson’s ambitious attempt to stage an epic, twelve-hour, multinational...

Hamlet and Ophelia reckon with their doomed narratives. Adapted from the 1977 East German Heiner Müller play of the same name.

An issue of the magazine Kino 81, designed for the film department of WDR by staff of FILMKRITIK

From August 1989 to March 1990, Heiner Müller and the Deutsches Theater ensemble develop “Hamlet/Maschine” amid East Germany’s...

On the run from her criminal Italian husband, a young French woman meets a German lover in West Berlin who offers her shelter but who also gets...

Documentary filmmaker Troller criss-crosses post-reunified “Transgermania” for a year, probing German identity through festivals...

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

This film not only illuminates Heiner Müller's life and works, it is more about questioning the "Sphinx" of the East and its saying about the...

On the one hand, the beyond-Tropicália surreal, wild, ecstatic universe of Khavn de la Cruz, the Philippines’ internationally most...

Documentary on Mão Morta's three sole concerts.

Movie scenes, montages of images and text, as well as conversations between Alexander Kluge, playwright Heiner Müller and classicist Wilfried...

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...

This "music magazine" is a montage of visually alienated historical film clips of tanks and soldiers (First and Second World War), pictorial...

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

A few months before his death, Müller responded to the keywords "breathing" and "smoking" with an anecdote that interprets breathing as an...

In order to justify interpreting the Oresteia as a representation of the "birth of democracy" (P. Stein), one has to repress a lot, for example the...