A Journey Into Bliss (Die Reise ins Glück) 20 years old

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)

Credits

A Journey Into Bliss Cast

Name	Character
Friedrich Schoenfelder He was 87, 94 years old when he died	as voice
Jörg Buttgereit He was 40, now 61 years old
Holger Müller He was 56, 71 years old when he died	as König Knuffi

A Journey Into Bliss Crew

Name	Department