Tunguska – Die Kisten sind da (1984)

Tunguska – Die Kisten sind da (1984)

Release Date: 1984, October 28
Directors: Christoph Schlingensief
Countries: Germany
Production: DEM Film
Cast: Sergej Gleithmann, Norbert Schliewe, Alfred Edel, Anna Fechter, Irene Fischer, Mathias Colli, Vladimir Konetzny

Overview:

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.