Christoph Schlingensief Movies

A great mosaic, a labyrinth of scenes, dialogue splinters, interviews, portraits of people surrounding Hamlet and wanting to be part of his story.

Jurgen is an unknown electrician with a dream of pop stardom. His mother browbeats him into fame, while two managers compete for his contract. All...

Documentary about Klaus Beyer with footage of this performance at WP8 Künstlerverein, Düsseldorf, talks with Jörg Buttgereit and...

Feature documentary about Christoph Schlingensief's political party/art project "Chance 2000".

Originally conceived as a film about 9/11, Richard Wagner, and the warrior Hagen von Tronje, to be shot in the German southwest African colony of...

A mockumentary directed by Christoph Schlingensief.

An exhilarating and amusing encyclopedic look at the "prehistory" of cinema. Werner Nekes charts the fascination with moving pictures which led to...

Documentary satire about a project by Christoph Schlingensief: Ten years after his TV project "Talk 2000", Schlingensief started to work on a new...

Mein 1. Film is the first short film shot by Schlingensief at the age of 8 with some “friends of the basement” and featuring a drama...

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...

Interview with Christoph Schlingensief on his films. Including many film clips.

As stated in the opening titles and at the end Freakstars 3000 is supposed to be a commentary on the problems of the non-disabled people. The more I...

A provocative and ironic pamphleteering documentary about the making of Christoph Schlingensief’s Nazi-'Hamlet’ (2001). Both a media...

In MY WIFE IN FIVE, Schlingensief composes tracks and takes to a shimmering cinematic music piece. The playlist changes constantly between the...

Christoph Schlingensief puts an end to the misery of "new German film production" and at the same time kicks off a new start without stale...

A gloomy small town at peace with itself on the edge of a bizarre industrial landscape. The former night watchman of the industrial complex is...

This black and white silent film with music by Helge Schneider, starring Udo Kier as a vampire and Alfred Edel as an Indian chief was commissioned by...