Christoph Schlingensief Movies

Interview with Christoph Schlingensief on his films. Including many film clips.

Christoph Schlingensief puts an end to the misery of "new German film production" and at the same time kicks off a new start without stale...

As stated in the opening titles and at the end Freakstars 3000 is supposed to be a commentary on the problems of the non-disabled people. The more I...

A provocative and ironic pamphleteering documentary about the making of Christoph Schlingensief’s Nazi-'Hamlet’ (2001). Both a media...

Five camping youths see at night a ghostly woman, which leads them to the castle of Count Kaunitz, in what will reveal itself to be a gruesome trap. ...

A satire about an ambitious amateur filmmaker decides to make a movie, enlists his family, uses the entire town as a backdrop, and still fails.

Film by Kluge and Aust.

Taking place around the German reunification of 1990, a group of East Germans cross the border to visit West Germany and get slaughtered by a...

A mockumentary - after suffering a tragic accident on a shoot in Tuscany, Udo Kier is about to die. Alfred Edel is sent in to film an obituary.

An early declaration of war on narrative cinema, using a barrage of visual and acoustic elements while at the same time juggling ironically - as he...

The first part of the little trilogy Phantasus muss anders werden; What happened to Magdalena Jung?; and Tunguska – Die Kisten sind da...

Documentary about the German artist Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997).

Documentary about Klaus Beyer with footage of this performance at WP8 Künstlerverein, Düsseldorf, talks with Jörg Buttgereit and...

The first short film shot by Schlingensief at the age of eight with some “friends of the basement” and featuring a drama divided into...

An early short film by Christoph Schlingensief, that is already dealing with German bourgeoisie and reality TV. In this television programme...

An eccentric homage to the Rainer Werner Fassbinder days of German filmmaking.

Sometime during the 19th century in Switzerland: After a delirious night of drinking, three herdsmen who are all alone in the alps with their kettle,...

Egomania is a visually stunning end-of-the-world melodrama about lust, jealousy and murder set amidst solar eclipses, orchestral chants and the...