Das deutsche Kettensägen Massaker (The German Chainsaw Massacre: The First Hour of Reunification) 1990 Ages 18+

When

8.00pm, Fri 9 Dec 2011 (60 mins)

Where

Gallery of Modern Art & Cinema A

About

In Schlingensief's alternative vision of German reunification, a group of East German emigrants encounter a West German family of psychotic butchers. As the film's tagline suggests: "They came as friends and became sausage!" Schlingensief's satirical horror film transposes the basic formula of the slasher genre within the context of a reunified Germany and mixes black comedy and trash aesthetics with his more experimental approaches, exposing the free market economy as the meat market it is!

Ages 18+

Production Credits

  • Director /Script: Christoph Schlingensief
  • Cinematographer: Christoph Schlingensief
  • Editor: Ariane Traub
  • Production Designer: Uli Hanisch
  • Music: Jacques Arr
  • Cast: Mike Wiedemann
  • Print Source / Rights: Filmgalerie 451
  • Year: 1990
  • Runtime: 60 minutes
  • Country: Germany
  • Language: German
  • Sound: Stereo
  • Colour: Colour
  • Screening Format: 16mm Transferred to 35mm