SCHLINGENSIEF – IN DAS SCHWEIGEN HINEINSCHREIEN

With his “Heimatfilme”, his actions and interventions in theatre, television, opera and art, director Christoph Schlingensief was one of the most distinctive voices in the cultural and political discourses of the German-speaking world for more than two decades. In her exquisitely assembled and hugely entertaining debut as a director, the renowned film editor Bettina Böhler undertakes the challenge of portraying the great artist in all his facets. The film traces Schlingensief’s development from the virtually pubescent filmmaker, caught in a fake blood frenzy, to the stage revolutionary of Berlin and Bayreuth and bestselling author.