Brutality in Stone
1961 · 12 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · 288 VOTES · DIR. Alexander Kluge, Peter Schamoni
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 83 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:09 Every structure left to us by history
00:00:24 of the Nazi Party
00:00:42 BRUTALITY IN STONE
00:01:55 We have seen the contrary: It is a gigantic construction!
00:03:08 with the 4th movement of Brahms' C-minor symphony.
00:03:41 Rudolf Höss.
00:03:56 until some became suspicious and spoke of suffocation and death.
00:04:11 In the next transport, the restless ones were rooted out
00:04:24 and shot with a small-calibre weapon.
00:04:41 The burning was done at night
00:04:53 had to be strictly adhered to
00:05:16 The model is constantly growing.
00:05:48 We have seen the contrary: It is a gigantic construction!
00:07:13 Transcript:
00:07:24 This will create a major impression.
00:07:38 The renaming of Berlin poses no technical problems, as demonstrated
00:08:21 The construction materials
00:08:31 Houses should be detached, built on allotments
00:09:10 From the BDM songbook
00:09:24 cast to earth the lion fierce that will us pierce...
00:09:40 Fatherland, we shall defend you, the enemies false blood
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed83
Dialogue density6.9 lines / min
First line00:00:09
Final line00:09:40
Production Record
DirectorAlexander Kluge, Peter Schamoni
LanguageGerman
IMDb votes288