Hölle Hamburg

Name: Hölle Hamburg
Genre: Crime
Released: 2007-10-24
Duration: 1 h 28 min
Rating: 5.8
Cast: Roland Adjao, Olajide Akinyosoye, Ozan Alatur

2007
1h 28m

IMDb RATING

5.8/10

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Crime

A ship is abandoned by its owner in Hamburgs harbour. The crew calls on the dead souls of the Comintern who take possession of a do-cumentary filmmakers consciousness. Agitprop takes the sta... Read allA ship is abandoned by its owner in Hamburgs harbour. The crew calls on the dead souls of the Comintern who take possession of a do-cumentary filmmakers consciousness. Agitprop takes the stage once again but in the years of its absence it has become wild.A ship is abandoned by its owner in Hamburgs harbour. The crew calls on the dead souls of the Comintern who take possession of a do-cumentary filmmakers consciousness. Agitprop takes the stage once again but in the years of its absence it has become wild.

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IMDb RATING

5.8/10

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Featured review

4/10

Message in a bottle

Bertolt Brecht is alive, and he is a black deckhand aboard the MS Rheinland, an abandoned cargo vessel moored on the dingy fringes of Hamburg's busy container seaport. There's a whole world going on below deck. "Hölle Hamburg" is part left-wing conspiracy thriller, part makeshift mockumentary. I also felt like I learned quite a lot about the joys and sorrows of a freelance filmmaker (played by Martina Schiesser). My personal favorite among the movie's many oddities is the revolutionary, if somewhat hectic filing system used by the underground merchant marine; I'm writing it up as "pick at random and crumple at ease". It's like the bohemian counterpart of the old-school document management practiced by Craig Schwartz, the megalomaniac puppeteer, in "Being John Malkovich". Watch out for Makalu veteran Jens Rachut in a supporting role. Technically inferior, but that's the price you pay for guerrilla movie-making. An experience like no other. 4/10 for sheer strangeness.