Using unpublished and newly digitalised archive footage and film material, Bettina Böhler has brilliantly assembled this film about the life and work of the exceptional artist Christoph Schlingensief, who died in 2010.
Editing
Böhler crafts coherence from decades of calculated madness.
Direction
Never sanitizes Schlingensief—lets him remain gloriously difficult.
Director
Bettina Böhler
Christoph Schlingensief
Self (archive footage)
Tilda Swinton
Self (archive footage)
Udo Kier
Self (archive footage)
Corinna Harfouch
Self (archive footage)
Hildegard Knef
Self (archive footage)
Martin Wuttke
Self
Helge Schneider
Self (archive footage)
Bernhard Schütz
Self (archive footage)
Sophie Rois
Self (archive footage)
Dietrich Kuhlbrodt
Self (archive footage)
Irm Hermann
Self (archive footage)
Sergej Gleithmann
Self (archive footage)
Margit Carstensen
Self (archive footage)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
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