Das deutsche Kettensägenmassaker: Die erste Stunde der Wiedervereinigung (The German Chainsaw Massacre: The First Hour of the Reunification). 1990. Directed by Christoph Schlingensief

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The German Chainsaw Massacre. 1990. Germany. Directed by Christoph Schlingensief. Courtesy Filmgalerie 451

Das deutsche Kettensägenmassaker: Die erste Stunde der Wiedervereinigung (The German Chainsaw Massacre: The First Hour of the Reunification). 1990. Germany. Directed by Christoph Schlingensief. In German; English subtitles. 60 min.

With Karina Fallenstein, Susanne Bredehöft, Artur Albrecht, Volker Spengler, Reinald Schnell, Udo Kier, Irm Hermann, Eva Maria Kurz. In Schlingensief’s version of _The Texas Chainsaw Massacre_—the second part of his Germany Trilogy—Germany’s reunification in 1989 turns into an ideological battlefield. News of the Fall of the Wall sends a family of butchers from West Germany into a murderous frenzy, compelling them to turn their Eastern German compatriots into sausage.

This film accompanies Christoph Schlingensief.

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