Brutality in Stone

Released
1961
12min
10 votes
WarDocumentaryHistory

Synopsis

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.

Détails techniques

Titre original

Brutalität in Stein

Langue originale

DE

Langues parlées

German

Production

Compagnies de production

Peter Schamoni Film

Alexander Kluge Filmproduktion

Dieter Lemmel Kurzfilmproduktion

Pays de production

Germany

Distribution & Équipe

Mots-clés

national socialismarchitecture