Quando o instrutor Schmidt tenta transformar jovens alemães em homens com habilidades militares ele acaba encontrando pelo caminho uma chefe militar que vai testar seus "talentos", obrigando Schmidt a enfrentar o maior desafio de sua carreira: a paz mundial.
Quando o instrutor Schmidt tenta transformar jovens alemães em homens com habilidades militares ele acaba encontrando pelo caminho uma chefe militar que vai testar seus "talentos", obrigando Schmidt a enfrentar o maior desafio de sua carreira: a paz mundial.
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)
By means of objects, photos, tapes and films, director Angelika Levi, half-German, half-Jewish, examines the story of her family. The film deals with trauma and the way history is produced, filed away, turned into discourse and ordered on macro and micro levels.
