Brutality in Stone (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.
Directors: Alexander Kluge, Peter Schamoni.
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Hans Clarin as Narrator |
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Christian Marschall as Narrator |
| Directing | Alexander Kluge | Director |
| Directing | Peter Schamoni | Director |
| Writing | Alexander Kluge | Writer |
| Writing | Peter Schamoni | Writer |
| Editing | Heidi Genée | Editor |
| Editing | Ursel Werthner | Editor |
| Production | Alexander Kluge | Producer |
| Camera | Wolf Wirth | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Hans Posegga | Original Music Composer |