The German chainsaw massacre
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The German chainsaw massacre |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1990 |
| length | 63 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Christoph Schlingensief |
| script | Christoph Schlingensief |
| production | Christian Prince Christoph Schlingensief |
| music | Jacques Arr |
| camera | Christoph Schlingensief, Voxi Bärenklau |
| cut | Ariane Traub |
| occupation | |
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The German Chainsaw Massacre is a German satirical horror film directed by Christoph Schlingensief from 1990.
In the film, the fall of the wall is portrayed as a national slaughter festival. The news of the opening of the Wall puts a West German butcher family into a bloodlust. In a shabby hotel kitchen, they kill GDR citizens who have traveled there.
The title refers to some under the title The Texas Chainsaw Massacre excessively designated horror and splatter films . Christoph Schlingensief wrote the script , directed and was involved in the camera work. In the US the film was shown under the title Blackest Heart , the British title was The German Chainsaw Massacre .
publication
The film is the second part of Christoph Schlingensief's Germany trilogy, consisting of 100 Years of Adolf Hitler - The Last Hour in the Führerbunker , The German Chainsaw Massacre and Terror 2000 - Intensive Care Unit Germany , which was released on DVD on October 29, 2010. The theatrical release was on November 29, 1990. On February 16, 1991 Schlingensief presented his work at the Berlinale .
Reviews
“In 1990, with its 41-year-old, slightly incestuous, sausage experience, the West was able to acquire unexpectedly new, slightly gray raw meat from the East. That process was called 'reunification'. And the same event was the reason for this film, the script of which Schlingensief - inspired on the one hand by Tobe Hooper's' Texas Chainsaw Massacre ', and on the other hand by the banana-waving,' Wir sind das Volk'-chanting crowds at the East-West border crossing, was finished within 14 days . 'They came as friends and became sausage', the film's slogan sums up the story, and Schlingensief corrects in an interview about 10 years later: 'Not even sausage, but just grits' is, in retrospect, from them, the brothers and sisters from the east. "
“Sometimes experimental, sometimes very concretely staged 'trash movie' with a wildly zooming camera and the buzzing sound of the saw, emerged as a quick and emotional reaction to political developments; a deliberately 'tasteless' and 'violent' film that comes along with a mallet, but seems less provocative than mostly banal.
“History will continue to be written in blood. And the (TV) images of the national-pathetic unison of German reunification at night in Berlin, with torchlight and hymns, with the Federal President and Chancellor, are followed in this film by the bloody moral of the whole story. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The German chainsaw massacre. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film Service , accessed December 20, 2010 .
- ↑ Christoph Schlingensief - Germany Trilogy ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Release dates for The German chainsaw massacre
- ^ Comment on Filmzentrale.de
- ^ Press reviews, collected by Filmgalerie 451
