R: Christop Schlingensief, Filmvertoning
October 1990: The German people celebrate the reunification of Germany in front of the Brandenburg Gate. Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker speaks of unity and freedom. A young woman kills her husband with a huge knife and flees. Her car, a “Trabant”, indicates Clara is an “Ossi”, an East German. She passes the last remaining border troops and arrives in the West. A family of butchers has been waiting for someone just like her. Alfred and his gang benefit from the opening of the borders in their very own way: they butcher and slaughter their brothers and sisters from the East, preferably with a chainsaw, and turn them into sausage. Christoph Schlingensief, the great provocateur, provides a disturbing and very bloody answer to a number of questions surrounding German reunification.
Christoph Schlingensief: "The German Chainsaw Massacre", (Das Deutsche Kettensägenmassaker) (D 1990, 63 min., 35mm, D OT/EN)
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