This Ain't California

B-boy rebellion, communism, skateboarding, the Stasi…

6.520121h 33m

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Overview

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.

StatusReleased

Release Date2012-08-15

Runtime1h 33m

LanguagesDeutsch

CountriesGermany

Revenue$135,929

Keywords

skateboarding

berlin wall

german democratic republic

Videos

1 total

Trailer

Trailer #2

Cast & Crew

Kai Hillebrand

as Denis 'Panik' Paraceck (uncredited)

David Nathan

as Adult Nico (uncredited)

Nora Decker

as Teenager Hexe (uncredited)

Lea Wolfram

as Doreen (uncredited)

Titus Dittmann

as Self - Businessman (uncredited)

Erich Honecker

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Katarina Witt

as Self - Sportswoman (archive footage)

Helmut Kohl

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Bill Clinton

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Gerhard Schröder

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Reviews

tmdb872652

Sep 29, 2013

0.5/10

The fact that this is fictional and director Marten Persiel claiming to have contacted Denis Paniceck (which is only a fictional character) is more than shady."I've met Denis several times and interviewed him".[1] This is absolutely in-acceptable. This is not a documentation about anything. It's a fictional piece of work about a certain time in …

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