Heiner Müller Movies

  • 1987
    Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars

    Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars

    Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars

    01987HD

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

    Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars
  • 2004
    Der Ausländer

    Der Ausländer

    Der Ausländer

    02004HD

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

    Der Ausländer
  • 1988
    Keine Hand wäscht die Andere

    Keine Hand wäscht die Andere

    Keine Hand wäscht die Andere

    01988HD

    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...

    Keine Hand wäscht die Andere
  • 1995
    Unter Deutschen

    Unter Deutschen

    Unter Deutschen

    71995HD

    Unter Deutschen
  • 2020
    Hamlet

    Hamlet

    Hamlet

    02020HD

    Hamlet
  • 2009
    Ich will nicht wissen, wer ich bin - Heiner Müller

    Ich will nicht wissen, wer ich bin - Heiner Müller

    Ich will nicht wissen, wer ich bin - Heiner Müller

    02009HD

    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...

    Ich will nicht wissen, wer ich bin - Heiner Müller
  • 1996
    He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded

    He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded

    He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded

    01996HD

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

    He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded
  • 1995
    On the Way to a Theater of Darknesses

    On the Way to a Theater of Darknesses

    On the Way to a Theater of Darknesses

    01995HD

    The conversation begins on the topic of Müller’s plans for new plays. Müller tells us that he has promised to write a libretto for...

    On the Way to a Theater of Darknesses
  • 1990
    Die Zeit ist aus den Fugen

    Die Zeit ist aus den Fugen

    Die Zeit ist aus den Fugen

    01990HD

    Die Zeit ist aus den Fugen
  • 1993
    Plowshare of Evil

    Plowshare of Evil

    Plowshare of Evil

    01993HD

    Citing Nietzsche, Müller defines intellectuals as the "ploughshares of evil," whose task it is "to create chaos, to destroy conceptions of...

    Plowshare of Evil
  • 1970
    At Work in the Ruins of Morality

    At Work in the Ruins of Morality

    At Work in the Ruins of Morality

    01970HD

    Quoting from historian Tacitus' Annals, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller delve into the Roman Iron Age, talk about the modern style of Tacitus'...

    At Work in the Ruins of Morality
  • 1991
    Every Frozen Structure has its Academy

    Every Frozen Structure has its Academy

    Every Frozen Structure has its Academy

    01991HD

    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
  • 1993
    The Last of the Mohicans

    The Last of the Mohicans

    The Last of the Mohicans

    01993HD

    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
  • 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

    01990HD

    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
  • 1996
    Heiner Müller in Time Flight

    Heiner Müller in Time Flight

    Heiner Müller in Time Flight

    01996HD

    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
  • 1997
    The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot

    The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot

    The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot

    01997HD

    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
  • 1991
    Rome, as Far Away as the Moon

    Rome, as Far Away as the Moon

    Rome, as Far Away as the Moon

    01991HD

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

    Rome, as Far Away as the Moon
  • 1990
    Heiner Müller on Legal Questions

    Heiner Müller on Legal Questions

    Heiner Müller on Legal Questions

    01990HD

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

    Heiner Müller on Legal Questions
  • 1995
    My Rendezvous with Death

    My Rendezvous with Death

    My Rendezvous with Death

    01995HD

    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
  • 1970
    Hamletmachine

    Hamletmachine

    Hamletmachine

    01970HD

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

    Hamletmachine