Brutality in Stone

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MOVIE

Brutality in Stone

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.

Original Title

Brutalität in Stein

Release Date

1961-02-08

Year

1961

Duration

12m

Status

Released

Score

6.80

#national-socialism#architecture

Cast

Hans Clarin

Hans Clarin

Narrator

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Christian Marschall

Narrator