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He Who Hopes, Dies Singing

Plot: Wer immer hofft stirbt singend is a bagatelle bordering on the burlesque, in which Kluge combines (historical) visual material and nostalgic images of various disasters with very graphically elaborated title card texts. The somewhat awkward Mexican Banda music underlines the bittersweet character of the work
Release Date: Friday, January 1 1998
26 years ago
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Portrait of Alexander KlugeAlexander KlugeAlexander Kluge was 66 in He Who Hopes, Dies Singing as 'Director'
Birthday: Sun, Feb 14 1932