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Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love”

DirectorAlexander Kluge

1995
24 min

Since German Classicism, it has become customary to translate extreme, emotional events into a ballad, a popular form of song. This ‘Balladen Magazin’ brings Cossack lamentations, the horrors of the war in Chechnya, and the execution of the unfortunate Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, among others...

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