Brutality in Stone

Brutality in Stone (1961)

Brutalität in Stein

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.

Date of release
1961-02-08
TMDB
7.1 / 10 (12)
Runtime
12m
Genres
War, Documentary, History
Director
Alexander Kluge, Peter Schamoni

Casting

Interesting facts

Brutality in Stone is a 1961 German documentary film directed by Alexander Kluge and Peter Schamoni. Produced at a time when German cinema preferred to forget the nation's Nazi past, the black and white film recalls the speeches and rallies of Adolf Hitler in a largely motionless setting.

Background

Visually, the film focuses on the architecture of the ruined Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg. The film draws connections between the design of these structures and the ideology of National Socialism. Repetitive motifs, such as pillars and sharp corners, have particular visual prominence in the film.

Brutality in Stone premiered at what is now known as the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen in 1961 as an inaugural film of a "new generation" of German cinema.

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