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Brutality in Stone (1961)

Brutality in Stone (1961)

History War Documentary
Release Date: 1961, February 8
Directors: Alexander Kluge, Peter Schamoni
Countries: Germany
Production: Peter Schamoni Film, Peter Schamoni Film, Alexander Kluge Filmproduktion, Alexander Kluge Filmproduktion, Dieter Lemmel Kurzfilmproduktion, Dieter Lemmel Kurzfilmproduktion
Cast: Hans Clarin, Christian Marschall

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

national socialism architecture