The Power of Emotion () is a 1983 West German essay film written and directed by Alexander Kluge. It was entered into the main competition at the 40th Venice International Film Festival.
The film uses a mixture of documentary, fictionalized narrative and archive footage to explore the ways in which cinema can express emotion. Like Germany in Autumn (1978) The Power of Emotion draws on multiple short narratives or documentary sequences, including the trial of a woman who has shot her husband to death, an interview with an opera singer, the state funeral of , sequences from Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen, a time lapse of the Frankfurt skyline and a story of fugitive diamond thieves.Miriam Hansen et al. (2012). Alexander Kluge: Raw Materials for the Imagination. Amsterdam University Press. p. 401.
"The film Die Macht der Gefühle is not about feelings," Kluge wrote, "but rather their organization: how they can be organized by chance, through outside factors, murder, destiny; how they are organized, how they encounter the fortune they are seeking."
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