The read
It runs a compact 1h 13m.
Synopsis
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)
Ratings
IMDb6.1/10
6 audience votes
Key crew
- Wenzel StorchDirector
Cast
- Jürgen HöhneCaptain Gustav
- Jasmin HarnauEva
- Holger MüllerKönig Knuffi
- Jörg ButtgereitCast
- Harry Rowohltvoice
- Friedrich Schoenfeldervoice