Brutality in Stone

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Brutality in Stone

6.8(10 votes)
1961
0h 12m
WarDocumentaryHistory
national socialismarchitecture

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.