German filmmaker Alexander Kluge, a pioneer of the 1960s New German Cinema movement who won the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion in 1968 for "The Artists in the Big Top: Perplexed," died Wednesday in Munich at age 94. Born in 1932, Kluge began as a lawyer before transitioning to cinema, becoming a signatory of the 1962 Oberhausen Manifesto and mentoring subsequent auteurs including Werner Herzog and Wim Wenders.
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German filmmaker Alexander Kluge, a pioneer of the 1960s New German Cinema movement who won the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion in 1968 for "The Artists in the Big Top: Perplexed," died Wednesday in Munich at age 94. Born in 1932, Kluge began as a lawyer before transitioning to cinema, becoming a signatory of the 1962 Oberhausen Manifesto and mentoring subsequent auteurs including Werner Herzog and Wim Wenders.