Tunguska – Die Kisten sind da

(1984)

★ 6.8 IMDb · 5 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1984

Runtime: 71 мин

Country: Germany

Director: Christoph Schlingensief

Cast: Irene Fischer, Mathias Colli, Alfred Edel, Anna Fechter, Norbert Schliewe, Vladimir Konetzny, Christoph Schlingensief, Sergej Gleithmann

Plot

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 still does - with the term 'avant-garde'. A number of other preferences and obsessions were evident at an early stage, e.g. the mind-numbing habit of having his people stumbling and screaming around: life as a race track. His films likewise feature a lot of theatrical and cryptic outpourings. No wonder that they failed at the box office. No wonder either, however, that Schlingensief was attracted to theatre.