Film Series
The German Chainsaw Massacre

Friday, 03. May 2019 at 07:00 pm., Goethe Hall

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.

This film is part of the film series "Film Macht Geschichte", which are screened from the 22nd of March until the 3rd of May 2019 in the Goethe Hall.

Director: Christoph Schlingensief, colour, 63 min., 1990