The Eiffel Tower, King Kong, and the White Woman / Headless Man - 2-DVD Set ( Der Eiffelturm, King Kong und die weiße Frau / Mann ohne Kopf ) ( The Eiffel Tower, King Kong, & the White Woman / Head less Man )

The Eiffel Tower, King Kong, and the White Woman / Headless Man - 2-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

$39.99

Original Title: Der Eiffelturm, King Kong und die weiße Frau / Mann ohne Kopf
Alternate Title: The Eiffel Tower, King Kong, & the White Woman / Head less Man
Language Selections:
Chinese ( Subtitles )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Portuguese ( Subtitles )
Russian ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
255 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1988 - 2007 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Alexander Kluge

Written By:
Alexander Kluge

Actors:
Alexander Kluge

Synopsis:

The Eiffel Tower, King Kong, and the White Woman (1988): A typical magazine from the start-up period of the independent television window in private broadcast TV. All traditional possibilities for expression in film and many types of television are experimented with: Editing, collage, multiple exposure, narrative interlacing. It deals with the opera, the French Revolution, the Eiffel tower, hit songs from 1932, and Walter Benjamin.

Headless Man (2007): Ballads and murder ballads are elemental narrative styles that are the precursor to the cinema. They relate destinies and emotion. A tiger saves a young maiden from a Turkish man; a stepmother kills the child she was entrusted with. But how do you tell about the construction work at dusk in the ruins of the Twin Towers or about Amok? Additional texts from his work at television in the booklet and as ROM features.

Die Afrikanerin oder Liebe mit tödlichem Ausgang / The African Woman or Love with a Deadly Finale - With Michael Rehberg and Sabina Trooger - First aired on May 2, 1988, dtcp on RTL - "Her name was Aida. He was a liar. Both were buried alive." The paths to love and the great content of the opera are related like cousins. In "The African," the celebrated opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer, a beautiful Indian princess saves the life of the Portuguese admiral Vasco da Gama.

Die Guillotine oder die Kategorie der Plötzlichkeit / The Guillotine or the Category of Suddenness - With Karl-Heinz Bohrer - First aired on May 30, 1988, dtcp on RTL - 200th Anniversary, French Revolution. The pharmacist Guillotine invents a machine for decapitation. Humans come into existence and grow up slowly. It is a shock to them to die so quickly. Karl-Heinz Bohrer, a famous essayist and publisher of the monthly journal Merkur, reports on this machine. "The category of suddenness and the conception of terror."

Der Eiffelturm, King Kong und die weiße Frau / The Eiffel Tower, King Kong, and the White Woman - With Ulli Hartmut and Silke Rein - First aired on December 26, 1988, dtcp on RTL - A typical culture magazine from 1988. All types of older films, television, traditional editing, double exposure, and modern interlacing are experimented with. From submarines and astronomers, to saving monuments and women and swimming contests on horses.

Antiquitäten der Reklame / Artifacts of Advertising - With Sabina Trooger and Alfred Edel - First aired on November 14, 1988, dtcp on RTL - Forgotten ads, lost objects, advertising film as art. It's about advertising and marketing in times long past. With Alfred Edel: He was a legendary actor in auteur films, although he was actually a professional advertising consultant.

Das Fliegerlied / The Pilot's Song - First aired on October 17, 1988, dtcp on RTL - Song from 1932: "From the North Pole to the South Pole, it's just a short hop." The case of a famous pilot's suicide. A grand total of twelve musical films. The great novel by Robert Musil, "The Man without Qualities," and the films and songs from the period tell the story of the same attitude toward life.

Wilde Nacht mit Mond / Wild Night with Moon - First aired on February 11, 1990, dtcp on RTL - Paul Klee and Walter Benjamin described an "angel of history." The heavy gale blowing in from paradise propels this angel into the future. The movie is dedicated to Joris Ivens.

Mann ohne Kopf / Headless Man - A reading by Alexander Kluge

Woher stammt das Lied "Die Fahne hoch"? / What Is the Origin of the Song: "The Flag on High"? - With Alexander Kluge - First aired on December 18, 1994, dtcp on RTL - Originally the marching song "The Flag on High," which had been part of Germany's national anthem, had an entirely different text. The song actually had its origins in a ballad: "A man wanted to ride home in order to visit his wife and child. That was the reason."

Die Zeit, die vergehen muß, damit eine Zuschauermenge Initiative ergreift / The Time That Must Pass Before an Audience Takes the Initiative - A reading by Alexander Kluge

Bleib steh'n, Wanderer, und lies / Stop, Stranger, and Read - With Durs Grünbein - First aired on October 21, 1996, dtcp on RTL - The Dresden poet Durs Grünbein published a book entitled "To The Dear Dead: 33 Epitaphs." It enlisted the use of an ancient literary style: The dead speak to passers-by.

Nur Gott hat zugesehen / Only God Witnesses It - With Ulrike Sprenger - First aired on September 9, 2002, dtcp on RTL - Murder ballads, ballads, and newspaper images tell humane and terrible stories. Dr. Ulrike Sprenger, who compiled the Proust ABC, reports on "the power of simple images."

N.Y. Ground Zero - Camera by Walter Lenertz - First aired on July 7, 2002, dctp on SAT 1 - Dusk at a construction site situated at the foot of where the Twin Towers once stood: "Public wounds heal slowly." With music by the New York composer Glenn Branca.

Raubengel / Preying Angel - A reading by Alexander Kluge

Der Untergang der Titanic / The Sinking of the Titanic - First aired on January 19, 2003, dtcp on RTL - In 1912 the Titanic sunk. In retrospect the event appears like a number that refers to the subsequent catastrophes of the 20th century. Hans Magnus Enzensberger developed unforgettable metaphors in an epic with 33 songs.

Solange die Notenblätter reichen / As Long As the Sheet Music Lasts - A reading by Alexander Kluge

Die Rache der betrogenen Braut / The Revenge of the Betrayed Bride - With Ulrike Sprenger - First aired on May 16, 1994, dctp on SAT 1 - Destinies and emotion: An eagle kidnaps a child; a tiger saves a persecuted woman; a lieutenant robs a maiden of her innocence; a young lady must watch as her lover betroths another.

Die neun Unzertrennlichen / The Inseparable Nine - A reading by Alexander Kluge - First aired on May 16, 1994, dctp on SAT 1

Amok. Das Ende der Einfühlung / Amok. The End of Empathy - With Joseph Vogl - First aired on August 4, 2002, dctp on SAT 1 - The Europeans were shocked by the Asian gunmen running amok in the 19th century: The perpetrators acted like "misanthropists", killing friend and foe with the same brutality. In the meantime the gunmen running amok have established themselves in the West as a public symbol as well. However there are no ballads or murder ballads to recount their stories.

Edition Filmmuseum 28
DVD 1: The African Woman or Love With a Deadly Finale, 1988 (24') · The Guillotine or the Category of Suddeness, 1988 (24') · The Eiffel Tower, King Kong and the White Woman, 1988 (24') · Artifacts of Advertising, 1988 (24') · The Pilot's Song , 1988 (22') · Wild Night with Moon, D 1990 (14')
DVD 2: Headless Man 2007 (2') · What Is the Origin of the Song «The Flag on High?», 1994 (9') · The time, That Must Pass Before an Audience Takes the Initiative, 2007 (4') · Stop, Stranger, and Read, 1996 (15') · Only God Witnesses, 2002 (12') · N.Y. Ground Zero, 2002 (2') · Preying Angel, 2007 (1') · The Sinking of the Titanic, 2003 (15') ·As Long As the Sheet Music Lasts , 1994 (2') · The Revenge of the Betrayed Bride, 1994 (13') · The Inseparable Nine, 2007 (3') · Amok. The End of Empathy, 2002 (45')

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