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Massacre allemand à la tronçonneuse

Original title: Das deutsche Kettensägen Massaker
  • 1990
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 3m
IMDb RATING
5.0/10
943
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Massacre allemand à la tronçonneuse (1990)
Dark ComedySatireComedyHorror

In "German Chainsaw Massacre" people meet up with a household of butchers. They detect low cost meat in the East Germans moving over the old boundary into the West and start turning them int... Read allIn "German Chainsaw Massacre" people meet up with a household of butchers. They detect low cost meat in the East Germans moving over the old boundary into the West and start turning them into sausage. Clara flees the slaying of her sleazy spouse and the rotting East, and lands in... Read allIn "German Chainsaw Massacre" people meet up with a household of butchers. They detect low cost meat in the East Germans moving over the old boundary into the West and start turning them into sausage. Clara flees the slaying of her sleazy spouse and the rotting East, and lands in the arms of butchers. She is held alive simply because the daughter of the family falls i... Read all

  • Director
    • Christoph Schlingensief
  • Writer
    • Christoph Schlingensief
  • Stars
    • Karina Fallenstein
    • Susanne Bredehöft
    • Artur Albrecht
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.0/10
    943
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Christoph Schlingensief
    • Writer
      • Christoph Schlingensief
    • Stars
      • Karina Fallenstein
      • Susanne Bredehöft
      • Artur Albrecht
    • 9User reviews
    • 16Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Karina Fallenstein
    Karina Fallenstein
    • Clara
    Susanne Bredehöft
    • Claras Mann…
    Artur Albrecht
    • Claras Liebhaber
    Volker Spengler
    Volker Spengler
    • Hank
    Alfred Edel
    • Alfred
    Brigitte Kausch
    • Brigitte
    Dietrich Kuhlbrodt
    • Dietrich
    Reinald Schnell
    • Kurti
    Udo Kier
    Udo Kier
    • Jonny
    Irm Hermann
    Irm Hermann
    • Die Zöllner
    Eva-Maria Kurz
    • Die Zöllner
    Ingrid Raguschke
    • Die Zöllner
    Kurt Wiedemann
    • Die Zöllner
    Renate Koehler
    • Ossa
    Sergej Gleitmann
    • Ossus
    • (as Volker Bertzky)
    Irmgard Freifau von Berswordt-Wallrabe
    • Ostdeutsches Paar
    • (as Freifrau Baronin Irmgard von Berswordt-Wallrabe)
    Dieter Lersch
    • Ostdeutsches Paar
    Biber G. Jakob
    • Die Leichen
    • Director
      • Christoph Schlingensief
    • Writer
      • Christoph Schlingensief
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    User reviews9

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    7Nikoloz_Gabedava

    I like it.

    Surrealistic, semi-expressionistic absurd. I like it. Montage is very well rounded. Some cuts are really exceptions. Film in total works on dream logic, but it doesn't really represent anything important.
    10murfit

    Schlingensief's definitive movie on the "reunification"

    This film has to be understood in the correct context; Schlingensief did not try to make a splatter movie, he just uses elements of the splatter genre, just as in other movies he used pieces of "new German cinema", neorealism, and so on. His objective I think was to make a truthful film about the so-called German reunification, and if its weird, confusing, brutal, tasteless, and very badly acted, this only adds to its truthfulness, because that is what the "reunification" actually was like. Christoph Schlingensief made the first honest and adequate film on this event from Germany's most recent history, and up to date it remains the only one.
    1BA_Harrison

    Mein Gott!

    The German horror scene has produced many an entertaining low-budget splatterfest, but The German Chainsaw Massacre is not one of them: it is totally unworthy of its 'Chainsaw Massacre' title, being about as far removed from the excellence of Tobe Hooper's classic as possible.

    Writer director Christoph Schlingensief attempts to combine political satire (about the reunification of Germany) with extreme violence and outrageous sleaze, but the film is a complete failure: it's a messy, incomprehensible assault on the senses that features ugly characters screaming and shouting at each other for just over an hour, with some inept bargain-basement gore thrown in for good measure. At least Olaf Ittenbach's films had decent special effects.

    Udo Kier appears in this garbage; he wears a ridiculous curly wig and screams and shouts with the rest of them. If this isn't his worst film, I'd hate to see what is (maybe one of the director's other films that also feature Kier?).
    1Leofwine_draca

    Extremely annoying

    A homemade gore flick from Germany that might better be called THE GERMAN CHAINSAW MASSACRE. An East German refugee lands in the hands of a family of butchers and cannibals. One of those films with no restraint or sense, instead just overwhelming the viewer with constant gore and screaming. Pitifully cheap and extremely annoying with it.
    5J. Steed

    HEAVY HANDED DIRECTION AND LACK OF HUMOUR

    Enfant terrible Schlingensief's view on the relationship between West and East Germans (Wessies and Ossies) is a very black, trash and low-budgeted horror film in which the Ossies are massacred and eaten by the Wessies; that is the way Schlingensief sees relationships between people in general. The story (such as there is) is hard to follow; Schlingensief seems more interested in showing atmosphere. Very gory horror effects, quite some faces are beaten to mash.

    There are some nice scenes, like the 5 former GDR customs officers who think the GDR still exists, but on the whole watching this film takes quite some perseverance not for the over the top horror (thàt over the top that it is hardly shocking), but for its heavy handed direction, ditto photography (very tiresome at moments), its grim view on life and lack of humour. On the other hand: to Mr. Schlingensief these four aspects may be going hand in hand, which would mean that he at least succeeded in making a very personal film. Hard core vegetarians better be ware.

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    • Release date
      • November 29, 1990 (Germany)
    • Country of origin
      • Germany
    • Language
      • German
    • Also known as
      • Blackest Heart
    • Filming locations
      • Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
    • Production companies
      • DEM Film
      • Rhewes Filmproduktion
      • Hymen II
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