Foreigners out! Schlingensiefs Container (2002)

FOREIGNERS OUT! SCHLINGENSIEFS CONTAINER is a thrilling, insightful, funny chronicle and reflection of one of he biggest public pranks and acts of art terrorism ever committed. Austria 2000... See full summary »

Director:

Paul Poet

Writer:

Paul Poet

Stars:

Christoph Schlingensief, Matthias Lilienthal, Rainer Laux

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Cast

Credited cast:
Christoph Schlingensief	...	Himself
Matthias Lilienthal	...	Himself
Rainer Laux	...	Himself
Elfriede Jelinek	...	Herself
Einstürzende Neubauten	...	Themselves
Peter Sloterdijk	...	Himself
Helene Partik-Pablé	...	Herself
Burghart Schmidt	...	Himself
Carl Hegemann	...	Himself
Daniel Cohn-Bendit	...	Himself
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Luc Bondy	...	Himself
Hans Bürger	...	Himself (archive footage)
Mario Garzaner	...	Himself
Gregor Gysi	...	Himself
Wowo Habdank	...	Caucasian Asylum Seeker

Storyline

FOREIGNERS OUT! SCHLINGENSIEFS CONTAINER is a thrilling, insightful, funny chronicle and reflection of one of he biggest public pranks and acts of art terrorism ever committed. Austria 2000: Right after the FPÖ under Jörg Haider had become part of the government, the first time an extreme right wing party became state officials after WW2, infamous German shock director Christoph Schlingensief showed a very unique form of protest. Realising public xenophobia and the new hate politics in the most drastic ways possible, he installed a public concentration camp right in the middle of Vienna's touristic heart, right beside the picturesque opera where hundreds of tourists and locals pass by daily. And it was no concentration camp you had ever feared to return from the old times, but one that cynically reflected our new multimedia culture. Satirising reality TV shows, "Big Brother" especially, a dozen asylum seekers were surveilled by a multitude of cameras, could be fed and watched by ...

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Plot Keywords:

concentration camp | extreme right wing | internet | xenophobia | big brother | 

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Taglines:

Democracy the hard way!

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Genres:

Documentary | Reality-TV

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site [Germany]

Country:

Austria

Language:

German

Release Date:

14 June 2002 (Austria)

Also Known As:

Foreigners out! Schlingensiefs Container

Company Credits

Production Co:

Bonus Film

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Black and White Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Clips from the movie were used without permission for the music video "Widerstand" for Austrian HipHop-stars Texta in 2000, directed by Michael Parenti, before the film even was officially released.

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Connections

Featured in Kulturzeit: Kulturzeit extra: Zum Tod von Christoph Schlingensief (2010)

User Reviews

a brilliant documentary film, a really interesting work

I think Auslaender Raus! is a brilliant unusual documentary film based in a very original idea that works out in the best way. In my opinion, it changes the documentary concept to something more thrilling (using interactive media art, public pranks, in a great ironic level), it´s not the outsider view of things, it´s the action itself and it brings a little (or not so little) but intense seed of revolution to us, against this global, violent, weak system we are part of nowadays. Some measures are needed, this film shows that it is us who have to make responsible for the measures that have to be taken, and that art and minds are one great way to do it.

Agustina (from Argentina)