Heiner Müller Movies
- 1993
Anti-Opera
Anti-Opera01993HD
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...
- 1989
Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday
Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday01989HD
This portrait of Heiner Müller on the occasion of his 60th birthday is devoted for the most part to having Müller recount events and...
- 1993
Plowshare of Evil
Plowshare of Evil01993HD
Citing Nietzsche, Müller defines intellectuals as the "ploughshares of evil," whose task it is "to create chaos, to destroy conceptions of...
- 2009
Ich will nicht wissen, wer ich bin - Heiner Müller
Ich will nicht wissen, wer ich bin - Heiner Müller02009HD
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...
- 1995
The Voice of the Playwright
The Voice of the Playwright01995HD
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...
- 1996
He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded
He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded01996HD
A few months before his death, Müller responded to the keywords "breathing" and "smoking" with an anecdote that interprets breathing as an...
- 1990
Die Zeit ist aus den Fugen
Die Zeit ist aus den Fugen01990HD
- 1990
Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by
Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by01990HD
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...
- 2012
Rigor Was His Mark of Quality
Rigor Was His Mark of Quality02012HD
Heiner Müller defines Stoicism as an attempt to deal with anarchy. For him, Erich Honecker is an example for "forced stoicism". Müller...
- 1990
Heiner Müller on Legal Questions
Heiner Müller on Legal Questions01990HD
"The metaphor is cleverer than the author" (Lichtenberg), a "screen," an "instrument for bundling" (Müller), because "everything changes so...
- 1991
Rome, as Far Away as the Moon
Rome, as Far Away as the Moon01991HD
Movie scenes, montages of images and text, as well as conversations between Alexander Kluge, playwright Heiner Müller and classicist Wilfried...
- 2004
Der Ausländer
Der Ausländer02004HD
Documentary by Thomas Heise filmed in East Berlin in 1987/88.
- 1997
The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot
The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot01997HD
The point of departure for this discussion is the question of whether the collapse of the Soviet Union is dramatic material. Müller answers with...
- 1988
Keine Hand wäscht die Andere
Keine Hand wäscht die Andere01988HD
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...
- 1998
Mão Morta Müller no Hotel Hessischer Hof
Mão Morta Müller no Hotel Hessischer Hof01998HD
Documentary on Mão Morta's three sole concerts.
- 1970
Hamletmachine
Hamletmachine01970HD
A filmed Musical adaption of Heiner Müller's 1977 play HAMLETMACHINE preformed at The Castillo Theater in 2002.
- 1995
Unter Deutschen
Unter Deutschen71995HD