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The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 1941

2020Directed by Alexander Kluge

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Released: January 1, 2020
Runtime: 2m

About The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 1941

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Adorno is not just a theorist and philosopher, he was also a composer and student of Alban Berg in Vienna. The text of the short song goes: “What’s driving there, on a cart and stretches out his long trunk?/ It is a mammoth! It is a mammoth! It is a mammoth which wants to go home.”

Director: Alexander Kluge
Original title: Theodor W. Adorno Rüsselmanns Heimkehr

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