Kluge has often acknowledged the many ways his films are stylistically indebted to the silent cinema. With In Danger he revives the tradition of the "city symphony" from the 1920s to construct a disquieting portrait of contemporary Frankfurt as an ominous anticipation of Germany's urban future. Kluge and his co-director Edgar Reitz won the Bundesfilmpreis for this extraordinary feature which interweaves fictional and documentary sequences to create a unique hybrid. The "real" events are mediated by Rita Müller-Eisert, a lyrical spy in the service of the DDR, and Inge Maier, a prostitute and thief. Like many Kluge characters, they are not rounded and three-dimensional but allegorical figures for the practice of watching, stealing and compilation that animate the film. They promenade through a series of unstaged events-the Fasching carnival, a meeting of young entrepreneurs, a convention of astro-physicists, and, most spectacularly, the demonstrations and street fights following the evictions of squatters from Frankfurt's old West End homes to make way for commercial skyscrapers-and thereby subvert the established boundary between the feature and documentary film genre. An astonishing sound and music montage (is) always a distinctive feature of Kluge's films. Stuart Liebman