U3000

Premise

In the eight-part program U3000 (2000), broadcasted by the music station MTV, Schlingensief assumes the role of the presenter who hates himself for his self-love disguised as telegenic selflessness. Common broadcasting formats are all being ridiculed without exception. A socially needy family can qualify for participation by winning the always same outside bet, in order to make their private fate public in front of a running camera and in the presence of passengers in the moving subway. Childlike rounds of games give them the opportunity to improve social welfare, critically watched by a jury made up of the handicapped actors from Schlingensief's ensemble. Aged show stars like Maria and Margot Hellwig, Christian Anders or Roberto Blanco are used in a talk-show wagon as cheap fodder and are forced to show compassion with such victims of the market economy. The bands of the MTV generation (Atari Teenage Riot, Surrogat, Söhne Mannheims and others) play in the dance wagon.

Cast and characters

Leading cast

• Christoph Schlingensief as Self - Host

Guest cast

• Margot Hellwig as Self
• Maria Hellwig as Self
• Christian Anders as Self
• Annemarie Wendl as Self
• Bernhard Brink as Self
• Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre as Self
• Roberto Blanco as Self
• Bärbel Schäfer as Self
• Claude-Oliver Rudolph as Self
• Peter Kern as Self

Episodes

This series spans 2 seasons with 8 episodes.

Production

Release

References

1. The Movie Database (TMDB)
2. IMDb
3. EpisodeTime Show Page