A Journey Into Bliss ( 2004 )

Overview

The film deals loosely with the adventures of the grizzled Gustav who captains a ship – a giant floating ‘snailboat’ – with a crew of talking animals and lumbering sailors in blackface. It unspools like a perverse children’s story book, all at once cuddly cute, grotesquely obscene and beyond absurd as normal narrative logic shatters, giving way to an episodic, free-associative structure that one critic likened to “cinematic memory association.” (joergbuttgereit.com)

Top Cast

Jürgen Höhne

Captain Gustav

Jasmin Harnau

Eva

Holger Müller

König Knuffi

Jörg Buttgereit

Harry Rowohlt

voice

Friedrich Schoenfelder

voice