Movielogr
Tunguska – Die Kisten sind da (1984)
Directed by Christoph Schlingensief
Overview
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 still does - with the term ‘avant-garde’. A number of other preferences and obsessions were evident at an early stage, e.g. the mind-numbing habit of having his people stumbling and screaming around: life as a race track. His films likewise feature a lot of theatrical and cryptic outpourings. No wonder that they failed at the box office. No wonder either, however, that Schlingensief was attracted to theatre.
Length 71 minutes
Actors
Christoph Schlingensief | Sergej Gleithmann | Mathias Colli | Anna Fechter | Alfred Edel | Irene Fischer | Norbert Schliewe | Vladimir Konetzny