War and Peace & The Candiate

War and Peace: At the peak of the Cold War, the short-range missile crisis, neutron bombs could have potentially annihilated Central Europe. 300,000 protesters in Bonn. German Chancellor Schmidt resigns. Why make a film collage about war? «Nothing is more discouraging than not being able to see through a game on which your life hinges.» – The Candidate: Another film collage motivated by the election campaign for the German Bundestag in 1981, where Franz Josef Strauss sought the office of the chancellor. An institution in politics falters time and again because of the reality of the Federal Republic. «Getting to a place in the sun is not easy because once you are there, it has already set.» The 2-disc DVD also offers two short films by Alexander Kluge, texts by Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt and the unpublished screenplay «Eyes from a different country» which was never filmed.

War and Peace, directed by: Alexander Kluge/Volker Schlöndorff/Stefan Aust/Axel Engstfeld, Germany 1982 (118')
Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour, 1983 (12')
So tückisch sind Friedensschlüsse 2006 (1')
The Candidate, Regie: Alexander Kluge/Volker Schlöndorff/Stefan Aust/Axel Engstfeld/Heinrich Böll, Deutschland 1980 (124')
Rule a Great Country as You Would Fry Small Fish, 1993 (15')
Sturm über Ägypten, 2006 (1')
Texts by Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt as well as an unfilmed screenplay by Alexander Kluge as ROM features (german only

Edition Filmmuseum 25 – Double DVD
Language Deutsch Subtitles english, français, español
Screen 1:1.37 - 4/3 PAL
Sound DD 2.0 (mono) FSK 14+ Region code All regions