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)
Captain Gustav
Eva
König Knuffi
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voice
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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)
Movie / 1999
Movie / 1950
Movie / 1994
Movie / 1975
Movie / 1997
Movie / 1946
Movie / 1941
Movie / 2009
Movie / 1954
Movie / 1974
Movie / 1996
Movie / 1961
Movie / 1935
Movie / 1999
Movie / 1990
Movie / 2002
Movie / 2010
Movie / 1994
Movie / 1973
Movie / 1936