A Journey Into Bliss

A Journey Into Bliss — Plot

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)

• Release date
• April 16, 2004
• Runtime
• 73 min
• Genres
• Comedy, Fantasy
• Director
• Wenzel Storch

A Journey Into Bliss — Cast

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Jürgen Höhne Captain Gustav

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Jasmin Harnau Eva

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Holger Müller König Knuffi Jörg Buttgereit Harry Rowohlt voice Friedrich Schoenfelder voice