Holger Müller

World peace is under threat - it's a good thing that instructor Schmidt exists. As a sharpshooter with a cigar, sunglasses and beret, he immediately suspects the terrorist conspiracy lurking behind the peace summit at Schwangau Castle. The aim is to unite the strife-torn Kallushistan. Princess Shirin and the pacifist recruit Rainer assist in the hunt for alleged assassins.

The film deals loosely with the adventures of the grizzled Gustav who captains a ship – a giant floating ‘snailboat’ – with a crew of talking animals and lumbering sailors in blackface. It unspools like a perverse children’s story book, all at once cuddly cute, grotesquely obscene and beyond absurd as normal narrative logic shatters, giving way to an episodic, free-associative structure that one critic likened to “cinematic memory association.” (joergbuttgereit.com)

By means of objects, photos, tapes and films, director Angelika Levi, half-German, half-Jewish, examines the story of her family. The film deals with trauma and the way history is produced, filed away, turned into discourse and ordered on macro and micro levels.

In Cologne, a park bench ends up in the Rhine and floats with the flow - until one day it finally ends up in Langeoog. She is found on the beach by Gerold (Gerold Oltmanns) and his friends Wilhelm (Wilhelm Nessen) and Fokke (Marcel Willms) also join her after a short time. The three friends make it their mission to find the original owner of the bank.

Manipulated, rotten meat infects a weird freak, who mutates into a disgusting zombie, always heading for new victims. The epidemic spreads fast, but a few heroes stir up against the threatening end of the world. A real devastating mixture of nerveshatter and strange humour, especially due to the most elaborated dialogues and the smallest budget film history has ever seen.