Brutality in Stone (1961)

Name: Brutality in Stone
Genre: Documentary, History, War & Politics
Released: 1961-02-08

12m

Running Time

Plot.

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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Cast & Crew.

Hans Clarin

Narrator

Christian Marschall

Narrator

Alexander Kluge

Director / Writer / Producer

Peter Schamoni

Director / Writer

Ursel Werthner

Editor

Heidi Genée

Editor

Hans Posegga

Original Music Composer

Wolf Wirth

Director of Photography

Dieter Lemmel

Producer

Details.

Release Date
February 8, 1961

Original Name
Brutalität in Stein

Status
Released

Running Time
12m

Genres
Documentary History War & Politics

Last updated: 2025-02-11

This Movie Is About.

national socialism

architecture

Wiki.

Brutality in Stone (German: Brutalität in Stein) is a 1961 German documentary film directed by Alexander Kluge and Peter Schamoni. Produced at a time when German cinema preferred to forget the nation's Nazi past, the black and white film recalls the speeches and rallies of Adolf Hitler in a largely motionless setting.