Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love” (1995)

Release Date: 1995-01-01
Runtime: 0h 24min
Director: Alexander Kluge

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...