Reinald Schnell

Movie - 1984, 2h 15m • as Der Heizer

A young man, recently arrived in New York from Europe, becomes swept up in a series of events that are beyond his knowledge or control.

Movie - 2020, 2h 15m • as Self (archive footage)

Using unpublished and newly digitalised archive footage and film material, Bettina Böhler has brilliantly assembled this film about the life and work of the exceptional artist Christoph Schlingensief, who died in 2010.

Movie - 1990, 2h 15m • as Kurti

Taking place around the German reunification of 1990, a group of East Germans cross the border to visit West Germany and get slaughtered by a psychopathic cannibal family who want to turn them into sausages.

Movie - 1986, 2h 15m • as Großvater Ludwig

A traumatized young man, abused by his father, imagines himself as Adolf Hitler when dreaming of revenge. Schlingensief released this film, which follows no linear narrative structure, at a moment when right-leaning German intellectuals argued for a coming to terms of the country’s relation with its Nazi past. Schlingensief disagreed. (MoMA)