A Journey Into Bliss

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)

Details

Status

Released

Release date

April 16, 2004

Original language

German

Spoken languages

German

Countries

Germany

Cast

Friedrich Schoenfelder,Holger Müller,Jörg Buttgereit,Harry Rowohlt,Jasmin Harnau,Jürgen Höhne

Director

Wenzel Storch

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0420116