Schlingensief cast actual neo-Nazis as Nazis and Switzerland lost its collective mind.
A provocative and ironic pamphleteering documentary about the making of Christoph Schlingensief’s Nazi-'Hamlet’ (2001). Both a media event and a form of political action Schlingensief let ex-neo-Nazis play themselves. His provocation in so-called Nazi-free Switzerland was not appreciated and when he added fuel to the flames by calling for the local political party SVP to be banned, his media offensive made front-page news far beyond Switzerland.
Direction
Kern captures Schlingensief's controlled demolition of polite discourse.
Production
The SVP ban stunt turned a play into national emergency coverage.
Director
Peter Kern
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Switzerland's 'Nazi-free' self-image was aggressively marketed post-WWII despite documented wartime collaboration; Schlingensief targeted this national mythology specifically.
Schlingensief was already notorious for 'Please Love Austria,' a container camp for asylum seekers he staged as Big Brother parody; this 'Hamlet' continued his career of making audiences complicit.
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