Alexander Kluge Filmproduktion

Car racing, speed, the spectators’ fascination, the signs of an era made of machines and competition. But “victory” is not the real meaning of it.

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.

The story of a revolution in a Caribbean insular state.