Die Macht der Gefühle
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| The Power of Emotion | |
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| Starring | Alexandra Kluge, Hannelore Hoger |
| Cinematography | Werner Luring, Thomas Mauch |
| Edited by | Carola Mai, Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus |
| Music by | Giuseppe Verdi |
| Distributed by | ZDF, Kairos-Film |
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Running time | 115 minutes |
| Country | West Germany |
| Language | German |
The Power of Emotion (German: Die Macht der Gefühle) is a 1983 West German essay film directed by Alexander Kluge. It uses a mixture of documentary, fictionalised narrative and archive footage to explore the ways in which cinema can express emotion. Like Germany in Autumn (1978) The Power of Emotion draws on multiple short narratives or documentary sequences, including the trial of a woman who has shot her husband to death, an interview with an opera singer, the state funeral of , sequences from Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen.[1], a time lapse of the Frankfurt skyline and a story of fugitive diamond thieves.
"The film Die Macht der Gefühle is not about feelings," Kluge wrote, "but rather their organization: how they can be organized by chance, through outside factors, murder, destiny; how they are organized, how they encounter the fortune they are seeking."[2]
References[]
- ^ Miriam Hansen et al, Alexander Kluge: Raw Materials for the Imagination, (Amsterdam University Press, 2012), p. 401.
- ^ "Courtisane: Die Macht der Gefühle". www.courtisane.be. Retrieved 19 July 2021.
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