Your new film King Munsa's Cookery Book - in a few words, what is it about? The film is about Patrizia, a young woman who once had been very fat and all her classmates made fun of her. One day she finds a book on the legendary King Munsa, the King of Cannibals. She decides to lose weight, become pretty and take horrible revenge. One after the other she kidnaps her former beautiful classmates to torture them and force them to eat meat, actually the flesh of her boyfriends whom Patrizia has killed before. What were your inspirations when writing King Munsa's Cookery Book? I love to read books - any kind, and many years ago I found a book on the first Europeans to explore Africa, and there I found the story on the infamous King Munsa, a legendary King who lived with his tribe in darkest jungle but was a very cultivated, friendly man, having a splendid orchestra. Actually, the Europeans finally discovered, King Munsa had slaugtered children to eat them for breakfast! When I researched Munsa in the web, I discovered there are people who consider Munsa even today an idol. Hmm... So Munsa is a very real person - and this shows how horribly strange human beings are.
King Munsa's Cookery Book also features a running gag about forcing vegetarians to eat meat. Now where did this come from, and are you a vegetarian yourself ... and, to ask something irrelevant for a change, your favourite food? I think it MUST be horror to force a vegatrian to eat meat or anyone to eat something he does not want to eat, look at the horrible tv show jungle camp where the people are forced to eat all kinds of LIVING insects or cockroaches or so. I am not really a vegetarian, I usually do not eat meat, especially since there are always those reports on meat which is stored for years. But in fact I always liked steak and I have to admit some days ago, I even ordered a cheeseburger at McDonalds. But usually I rarely eat meat. My favorite food is pizza and the very best pizza in my eyes you get in a lovely restaurant in Los Angeles on Hollywood Blvd/La Brea. Whenever I am in Hollywood I am there almost every second day. King Munsa's book itself implies to have an interesting backstory to it which is only superficially touched upon in King Munsa's Cookery Book, and a great many possibilities for future stories. Any chance you'll ever get back to the good King Munsa in the future? Yes, certainly, King Munsa is a great story and we should use that again. The hilarious title card at the end of the movie that depicts the further fate of your lead character - now where did that come from? Da-da-da-da!. Dragnet of course, I watched the series when I was a child and would like to rewatch it some day - the movie was great as well. Now this is done in almost every reality soap, but I made it in memoriam the Dragnett series but also to show what I think of our judges whom I consider corrupt and incompetent. In fact there are so many verdicts I consider more injustice than justice. There are criminals who killed and who are set free by totally corrupt judges. So I thought if Pat would have to appear in a court room they would let her go and condemn society. I also included a friendly hommage to my friends from Santa Monica Court of course. To me at least, King Munsa's Cookery Book seems to feature some of the blackest humour of all your movies. Would you agree to that, and would you like to elaborate on it? Yes, of course, I always liked black humor and we used it already in earlier productions. However, I think we are simply getting better with the years and of course I want to go into this direction some more - however you always depend on your talent. You have recently also released a revamped version of one of your very early films, Die Schulfeindin. What has changed in the new version, and why of all your films Die Schulfeindin? Die Schulfeindin was one of the first projects I produced - and I made so many mistakes. We shot analog with the great Panasonic MS 4. As I did not have much money we had to post-mix the stereo-recorded sound with the other tracks onto a mono track. I also felt I never had used the best shots possible. We had great actresses and a very good story, so I felt the version I edited first was not the best we could do and in fact I re-edited the picture half a dozen times and finally with all the new computers and Magix and all I digitally transferred the original analog material to my computer and edited the whole picture all new, also using new music, and finally I could also use ther original recorded stereo soundtrack. I think the 2011 version is the first real good one. Actually I'd also like to do a remake. Will there be more recuts of old films of yours in the future?
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