Films by Klaus Salge

Germany 2013, 86 min
by Asteris Kutulas

Not just a music film. Not just a ballet film. Not just a political film essay. Here, an antique Greek tragedy serves as an astute metaphor for the country’s current tragedy. Medea kills her own children. Society has turned against its offspring and thus kills their future. The balletic retelling of a mother murdering her two kids, choreographed by Renato Zanello features music by Mikis Theodorakis. The dancers are contrasted by the disturbingly mild-mannered 15-year-old Bella, the story’s innoc

Germany 2011
by Klaus Salge

Throughout the decades of the Cold War the Berlin Wall symbolised two world-views.In early 1989, Chris Gueffroy, 20, was the last person to die whilst attempting to cross it.His name came to represent those who died at the Wall.What kind of person was Chris? Why did he no longer want to live in the GDR-dictatorship? Filmmaker Klaus Salge asks Karin Gueffroy, mother of the deceased, and his friends about Chris’ life and the reasons for his attempted flight.He also asks what the cruel death

Germany 2011, 53 min
by Asteris Kutulas, Klaus Salge

Mikis Theodorakis, Composer is the first film to take the musical oeuvre of the Greek composer as its principal subject. The chronologically structured documentary gives a concentrated overview of Theodorakis’ nigh seven decades of artistic creation, from his ecclesiastic compositions as a young man to the operas of the nineties. The artist’s extremely eventful life is depicted in its symbiotic relationship to his compositions. The film above all lets the composer have his say. Music and image s

Germany 2010, 52 min
by Jacek Kubiak, Klaus Salge

Only days after the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 there began a phase of the Nazi occupation - the creation of a field laboratory for German racist policies in Poland. The Nazis planned in Western Poland - they called the district “Warthegau” - a “blond province”. A laboratory for the breeding of the “German master race”. Immediately after the German invasion tens of thousands of Poles - Christians and Jews - were turned out of their homes, deported, murdered by the German Army, th