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.
Type:
MOVIE
Country:
DE
Genres:
Documentary, History, Animation
Release:
August 2012
Production:
Wildfremd Production, ARTE, MDR, RBB
Cast:
Kai Hillebrand, David Nathan, Nora Decker, Lea Wolfram, Titus Dittmann, Erich Honecker, Katarina Witt, Helmut Kohl, Bill Clinton, Gerhard Schröder
Tags:
skateboarding, berlin wall, german democratic republic, 1970s, extreme sports, male friendship, mockumentary, 1980s, 1990s, political repression, soviet union history, 2000s, semi-fiction, 2010s
