TERROR 2000 - INTENSIVSTATION DEUTSCHLAND

A hectic film for hectic times is an apt description of TERROR 2000 – INTENSIVSTATION DEUTSCHLAND. It’s an understatement of sorts to refer to this final part of Schlingensief’s German trilogy (following DAS DEUTSCHE KETTENSÄGENMASSAKER und 100 JAHRE ADOLF HITLER) as “a collection of spontaneous impressions of Germany during the Helmut Kohl (Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998) era. Two unlikely detectives investigate the disappearance of a German social worker and the Polish family for whom he worked. Their investigations take them to the East German city of Rassau. In Rassau, they find the last hostage takers of Gladbeck living undercover as a priest and a cheap wholesale furniture dealer who led the city’s xenophobic mob in killing sprees against asylum seekers. (Kathrin Rhomberg)
“TERROR 2000 had been labelled misanthropic, misogynistic, and anti-gay, which perplexed Schlingensief, who had made the film in the spirit of curative fun. As a son of a pharmacist, Schlingensief understood strong medicine often had to be prescribed to cure an illness; to fix a sick society, shock, often in the form of parody, may be an ideal treatment.” (Laurence Kardish)

With DIE SCHULKLASSE and ZAK – NAZIS VOM MARS