Germany, right after the re-unification. The people are out of control, blind hatred towards immigrants is common sense. In this time, a social-worker, with the mission to bring a Polish family to their destination (an immigration camp in a little provincial town called Rassau), gets kidnapped just as the family. Chief inspector Koern and his girl-friend start to investigate in this matter in Rassau, exploring a world of obsessive sex, mislead lust and an over-whelming irrational love to the German nation, infiltrating anyone's mind. Rascism doesn't start with shaved hair and boots but rather in the middle of society itself...
Direction
Schlingensief's kamikaze satirical assault on reunification Germany.
Acting
Udo Kier's unhinged Jablo, a performance from another dimension.
Production
Zero-budget chaos that weaponizes its own ugliness.
Director
Christoph Schlingensief
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released months after neo-Nazi arsons killed Turkish immigrants in Mölln and Solingen; Schlingensief called it 'immediate cinema' responding to live atrocities.
The film's title references Tod Browning's Freaks but its real lineage is Godard's Week End—same road-trip-to-nowhere nihilism, same collapsing Europe.
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