Schlingensief - In das Schweigen hineinschreien (2020)
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A documentary traces Christoph Schlingensief’s lifelong artistic engagement with Germany and its postwar past.
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Through excerpts from films, recordings of theater productions and political actions, private footage, and historical interviews with Christoph Schlingensief, this documentary portrays his life and work. It focuses on his sustained engagement with Germany, a concern rooted in his youth as a Super 8 filmmaker and carried through his later films, theater, and opera productions. Its title, “Screaming into the Silence,” points to the way postwar German society has dealt with its Nazi past.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
The documentary portrays Christoph Schlingensief’s life and work through film excerpts, recordings of his theater productions and political actions, private footage, and historical interviews with Schlingensief himself. The filmmaker focuses on Schlingensief’s ongoing engagement with Germany. His relationship with his homeland had preoccupied him since he was a young Super 8 filmmaker, and it remained a central theme in his work, in his films and later theater and opera productions. The title, Screaming into the Silence, refers to how postwar German society has dealt with its Nazi past.
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