A Journey Into Bliss

2004 · 73 MIN · IMDB 6.1 · 240 VOTES · DIR. Wenzel Storch

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Overview

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)

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Dialogue Timeline — 743 lines

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00:00:05 This film is based on a true story.
00:02:21 The might of the oracle has stunk them together like shit to a blanket.
00:05:24 the Captain happily casts anchor.
00:07:51 Fasten your seatbelts, please! And put on your helmets!
00:10:27 - Very funny. - Like your dandruff, granddad.
00:12:34 - And what's happened to my car? - Well...
00:14:49 - Aren't you afraid of men? - What a hick. Why else would I be here?
00:17:13 Golden roasted, richer, smoother.
00:20:37 - Check this out. - Papa as a baby.
00:23:12 That’s all very well, but where did they hang the steed with the golden helmet?
00:25:35 - What nonsense. - Off to your fitting, Master Rabbit.
00:28:36 Even the king of gourmets has arrived on an empty stomach.
00:31:38 Unlucky with the washing machine, lucky with booze.
00:34:47 Suddenly an icy breath from the past wafts through the throne room.
00:39:23 Man, this will be some heavy ransom claim.
00:41:39 - Load the starfish! - Load the starfish!
00:43:53 Do you have any plans for tonight yet?
00:46:32 - The early bird catches the worm. - These little chicks'll get my worm.
00:49:10 Early retirement at forty. And a lover's tryst with your wife.
00:51:36 What now? Hello Dolly!
00:55:56 And I thought you’d gone back to the Congo.
00:58:17 I completely lost it.
01:00:29 Me? Super. No problem.
01:02:47 I don’t need a cannon to fix a wretch like you.

Cast & Characters

Jürgen Höhne Captain Gustav Jasmin Harnau Eva Holger Müller King Knuffi Frank Bauer König Knuffi Jörg Buttgereit Edelleute Jeanette Eisebitt Edelleute Jan Hahne Edelleute Ralf Hammermeister Edelleute Marga Heinze Omma Matthias Hänisch König der Feinschmecker

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed743
Dialogue density10.2 lines / min
First line00:00:05
Final line01:02:47

Production Record

DirectorWenzel Storch
LanguageGerman
IMDb votes240