DVD collections

The DVD's Edition Filmmuseum 04 and Edition Filmmuseum 05 present films which refer to each other: Both films deal with the taboo subject homosexuality, both film were censored and forbidden, both films don't suvive in the original form as intended by the filmmakers. The DVD's offer as ROM features many unpublished documents about the production and censorship history of the films. A special highlight is a letter exchange between the Jewish emigrant Richard Oswald (Anders als die Andern) and Nazi protegé Veit Harlan (Anders als du und ich).

Eight 2-disc DVDs (Edition Filmmuseum 20-27) with more than 50 films: All the films for cinema by Alexander Kluge as well as a selection of his works for television. Also included as ROM features are short stories, texts (in German and English) and five complete books by Alexander Kluge as well as a new book about Kluge Neonröhren des Himmels. Ein Filmalbum (only in German). Besides Edition Filmmuseum offers exclusively nine booklets with pictures and more texts by Kluge in German and English.

Four classics of the best German film comedy which were the box office hits of the early post-war years in Germany. The films are very entertaining historical documents which kept their charme thanks to their brilliant dialogues and the performances of Curt Goetz and Valerie von Martens. The original films were restored from the best surviving elements and complemented by luxurous and rare bonus material.

Fifteen 2-disc DVDs with about 200 films by Alexander Kluge (Edition Filmmuseum 20-34): All the films for cinema and a wide selection of the works for television. Also included as ROM features are short stories and texts (in German and English) as well as complete books from 1960-2009 by and about Alexander Kluge (only in German). Only this original edition includes exclusively 15 bilingual booklets with additional texts by Kluge in German and English. The complete Alexander Kluge is one of the most elaborated DVD edition of the comprehensive works of one of the most creative and influential author of the New German Cinema: The "German Godard". It will be delivered in an exclusive box with a comprehensive register for an unbeatable special price.

German silent cinema from Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari to the coming of the talkies is one of the most celebrated eras in film history. But the corpus of Weimar cinema, as generally viewed, consists only some "classic" directors and masterpieces which suit Kracauer's psycho-sociological perspective, and Eisner's essentially Romantic view of German art history. This collection presents newly rediscovered and meticulously restored films of less known German filmmakers such as Robert Reinert, Richard Oswald, Curt Goetz, Hanns Walter Kornblum, Fritz Freisler, Zoltan Korda, Hugo Rütters and Ella Bergmann-Michel. All films are meticulously restored from the best surviving material. Information about the films and the filmmakers are documented in the booklets, ROM features and film essays. Seven DVD's for a special price.

137 TV movies on 7 2-disc DVD's (Edition Filmmuseum 28-34). Short films, filmed stories and miniatures, talks and interviews, commentaries and satires in the context of big themes. As a German Kluge is influenced by Kant, Marx, Kleist, Freud, Brecht and Benjamin, but the themes of his DVD's are universal: What is public (EF 28)? What is the fate of the industry and the work (EF 29)? Love (EF 30), war (EF 31). The close companionship of facts and fantasy (EF 32). The great emotions - as mirrored in the opera (EF 33). The poetic power of theory and new public (EF 34). And a portrait of Kluge and his work: "All emotions believe in a happy ending." Only the original edition includes 7 bilingual booklets with stories by Kluge as well as books and magazines by Kluge and about Kluge as ROM features, including the new catalogue "Seen sind fuer Fische Inseln" (in German), the booklet "Alexander Kluge Venezia 2007" (in Italian and English) and an index for all the Edition Filmmuseum Kluge DVDs.