Tonight lawyer, novelist and filmmaker <http://www.ubu.com/film/kluge.html> *Alexander Kluge* will be awarded for his "exceptional achievements in German cinema" by the film academy, much to the approval <http://www.taz.de/nc/1/archiv/digitaz/artikel/?ressort=sw&dig=2008%2F04%2F25%2Fa0108&src=GI&cHash=60db4c537f> of Christina Nord. But Kluge won't be sitting on his laurels for long as he is planning to film *Karl Marx*'s "Kapital". "Sergej Eisenstein, the Soviet film pioneer had a similar idea 80 years ago but his project failed. Now, together with director Tom Tykwer <http://www.tomtykwer.com/>, poet Durs Grünbein <http://www.complete-review.com/authors/grundurs.htm>, philosopher Peter Sloterdijk <http://www.petersloterdijk.net/>, Kluge is planning to take up where the Russian filmmaker left off and create a 420-minute film version of the three volume classic. Working title: '*News from ideological antiquity*.' Antiquity, says Kluge, because Marx belonged to 'a distant age.' At the same time he is as immovable as a star and therefore serves as an orientation point for navigation in the modern world."