Interview with Alexander Kluge

Electric lighting, the circus, the song Blue Moon and street wars between gangs of youths in North Manila intertwine in Happy Lamento, the breathtaking new film by German director Alexander Kluge, who is back at Venice 50 years after winning the Golden Lion in 1968 with Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed.
Interview by Vittoria Scarpa (Cineuropa.org).