Krieg und Frieden : & Der Kandidat /

Two documentary films and four shorts created by the noted German producer and director Alexander Kluge.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	Münchner Stadtmuseum. Abteilung Film, Goethe-Institut (Munich, Germany), Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Edition Filmmuseum (Firm)
Other Authors:	Kluge, Alexander, 1932-, Böll, Heinrich, 1917-1985, Aust, Stefan, Schlöndorff, Volker, Eschwege, Alexander von, 1948-2000, Engstfeld, Axel, 1953-, Rehberg, Hans-Michael, 1938-, Traier, Dieter, 1941-, Zapatka, Manfred, Strauss, Franz Josef, 1915-1988, Biermann, Wolf, 1936-, Carstens, Karl
Format:	Video DVD
Language:	German
Language Notes:	In German with optional English, French, Spanish, Chinese and Russian subtitles.
Published:	München : Edition Filmmuseum, [2007]
Subjects:	Nuclear weapons > Moral and ethical aspects. Nuclear arms control. Cold War. Strauss, Franz Josef, > 1915-1988. Statesmen > Germany (West) Germany (West) > Politics and government. Documentary films > Germany. Documentary-style films > Germany. Nonfiction films. Short films. Motion pictures, German. Foreign films.

Description
Summary:	Two documentary films and four shorts created by the noted German producer and director Alexander Kluge. Krieg und Frieden (War and peace): Documentary and film collage examining the short-range missile crisis at the peak of the Cold War, when neutron bombs could have potentially annihilated Central Europe. Includes fictive episodes at the end promoting an anti-nuclear, pro-peace message ("Space Talk," "Atom Bunker," and "Kill Your Sister"). Documentary footage of Chancellors Helmut Kohl and Helmut Schmidt in action, along with various European and American leaders highlight the urgent issues of the day. Der Kandidat (The Candidate): This political documentary puts together clips from newsreels, archives, and television to review the controversial career of Franz Josef Strauss who was running for Chancellor of West Germany at the time this documentary was made. Strauss founded the Christian Socialist Union and had a long political history as a parliamentarian (1949), Special Minister (1952), and by 1955 was Minister of Defense. His career began to unravel when a series of scandals hit the presses that involved him in kickbacks and abuses of power. Strauss was forced to resign his post as Defense Minister in the early 1960s.
Item Description:	Title from the container. "Eine Präsentation des Goethe-Instituts in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Filmmuseum München und mit Unterstützung der Kulturstiftung des Bundes"--Container. Originally produced as motion pictures between 1982 and 1993. Presented in TV format 4:3. Includes booklet with texts by Alexander Kluge in English and German. DVD-ROM texts include: Bereich: Text von Kluge/Negt & Drehbuch von Alexander Kluge. Disc does not contain So tückisch sind Friedensschlüsse and Sturm über Ägypten, as listed on the container. Videorecording.
Physical Description:	2 videodiscs (approximately 269 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:	DVD (PAL); region code 0; Dolby digital 2.0 (mono).
Production Credits:	Krieg und Frieden: directors, Alexander Kluge, Volker Schlöndorff, Stefan Aust, Axel Engstfeld ; writers, Alexander Kluge, Volker Schlöndorff, Stefan Aust, Axel Engstfeld, Heinrich Böll. Der Kandidat: directors and writers, Stefan Aust, Alexander Kluge, Alexander von Eschwege, Volker Schlöndorff.