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196112 minPGdocumentary

7.1/ 10(11 ratings)• TMDB

Brutality in Stone

196112 minPGdocumentary

7.1/ 10(11 ratings)• TMDB

Kluge's film reveals how Nazi architecture amplified brutal ideologies.

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Heather Hawksford,

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Kluge's film reveals how Nazi architecture amplified brutal ideologies.

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Heather Hawksforddirector

Reed Harknessdirector

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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.

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