Released:
2004-04-16

Overview:
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)

Director:
Wenzel Storch

Runtime:
1h 13min

Genre:
Comedy, Fantasy

• Cast:
• 
  Jürgen Höhne
  as
  Captain Gustav
• 
  Jasmin Harnau
  as
  Eva
• 
  Holger Müller
  as
  König Knuffi
• 
  Jörg Buttgereit
• 
  Harry Rowohlt
  as
  voice