The Power of Emotion

1983 [GERMAN]

Crime / Drama

IMDb Rating 6.7/10 10 185 185

Plot summary

Emotions and feelings should not be confused with sentimentality. Emotion is ancient and more powerful than any artistic expression. The film observes young couples facing difficulties while trying to move their love experiences towards clear decision making. A film full of ideas, details and associations, fictional scenes, documentary footage, archival materials and opera music.

Director

Alexander Kluge Photo
Alexander Kluge

Top cast

Daniel Lüönd Photo
Daniel Lüönd as Manfred Schmidt
Wilfried Elste Photo
Wilfried Elste as Feuerlöschkommandant Schönecke
Ruth Wohlschlegel Photo
Ruth Wohlschlegel as Frau Gerti
Carlos Krause Photo
Carlos Krause as Mordopfer Ante Allewich
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1014.04 MB
966*720
German 2.0
NR
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25 fps
1 hr 50 min
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1.84 GB
1438*1072
German 2.0
NR
us  
25 fps
1 hr 50 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by claudio_carvalho 5 / 10

A Beautiful and Weird Mosaic of Images Associated to Music and Feelings

"Die Macht der Gefühle", a.k.a. "The Power of Emotions", is a beautiful and weird movie with a mosaic of images, most of them footages, associated to music and feelings. This is the first work of the German director Alexander Kluge that I see and it is impressive his culture in opera in most of his excerpts from operas. He is also ironic, with the short story of a woman that is left by her lover and decides to commit suicide swallowing many pills. A traveling seller sees her dying in her car and helps her to vomit. Then he rapes her, but he is arrested by the police. In the court, the woman does not accuse her rapist telling that she had not felt anything but the rejection of her lover. There is also another unfinished story of the prostitute Betty that is sold to the burglar Kurt Schleich and they are connected when they work together for four weeks to save the life of a foreigner traveling seller that was attacked by Schleich's partner. My vote is five.Title (Brazil): "O Poder dos Sentimentos" ("The Power of the Feelings")
Reviewed by Horst_In_Translation 4 / 10

I did not feel much watching this one

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