Terror 2000 – Intensivstation Deutschland
(Terror 2000 - Germany Out of Control)
Christoph Schlingensief, 1994 Germany, 35 mm transferred to Blu-ray, 79 min
Springtime for Hitler... Again? Schlingensief’s politically-incorrect satire of post re-unification Germany follows a couple investigating the disappearance of a German social worker and the Polish family in his care. Their search takes them to the provincial town of Rassau, where the remaining hostage takers of the real-life Gladbeck hostage drama, are living undercover as a priest and a furniture wholesaler. Echoing the media-induced hysteria that resulted in widespread Neo-Nazi racist attacks throughout Germany in the early 1990s, Schlingensief’s hostage takers lead the city's xenophobic locals in a gory killing spree against asylum seekers. (Australian Cinémathèque)
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