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This Ain't California (2012)
Directed by Marten Persiel
“B-boy rebellion, communism, skateboarding, the Stasi…”
Documentary, History, Animation · 1h 33m
A retrospective look at the youth cultures born in the German Democratic Republic. A celebration of the lust for life, a contemporary trip into the world of skate, a tale on three heroes and their boards, from their childhood in the seventies, through their teenage rebellion in the eighties and the summer of 1989, when their life changed forever, to 2011.
Cast
K
Kai Hillebrand
Denis 'Panik' Paraceck (uncredited)
David Nathan
Adult Nico (uncredited)
N
Nora Decker
Teenager Hexe (uncredited)
L
Lea Wolfram
Doreen (uncredited)
Titus Dittmann
Self - Businessman (uncredited)
Erich Honecker
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Katarina Witt
Self - Sportswoman (archive footage)
Helmut Kohl
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Bill Clinton
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Gerhard Schröder
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Crew
- Director
- Marten Persiel
- Writer
- Ira Wedel
- Director of Photography
- Felix Leiberg
- Original Music Composer
- Lars Damm, Troy von Balthazar
- Editor
- Maxine Goedicke, Bobby Good, Toni Froschhammer
- Producer
- Ronald Vietz, Michael Schöbel
Details
- Release date
- 2012-08-15
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Genres
- Documentary, History, Animation
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- German
- Countries
- Germany
- Production
- Wildfremd Production, ARTE, MDR, RBB
- Box office
- $135,929