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B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989
By
Klaus Maeck , Heiko Lange , Jörg A. HoppeDuration
92 MIN
Language
German, English
Subtitles
French
Country
Germany
Year
2015
Synopsis
Music, art and chaos in the wild West-Berlin of the 1980s. The walled-in city became the creative melting pot for sub- and pop-culture. Before the iron curtain fell, everything and anything seemed possible. B-MOVIE is a fast-paced collage of mostly unreleased film and TV footage from a frenzied but creative decade, starting with punk and ending with the Love Parade, in a city where the days are short and the nights are endless. Where it was not about long-term success, but about living for the moment - the here and now.
Direction
Klaus Maeck
Klaus Maeck (born 28 July 1954 in Hamburg) is a German film producer, music publisher and author.
In his home town of Hamburg, Maeck created the first punk record store, Rip Off, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and did so until his bankruptcy. Since the early 1980s, he also worked on Super 8 films. The feature film Decodeur (1984), co-produced by film artist Muscha, has become a cult film in the punk scene. Maeck became then, for several years, co-founder and director for independent music publisher Freibank Music Publishing, where he worked as a manager and a consultant. He later co-founded the film production company Hamburg Corazón International, Maeck became more and more active as a consultant in film music industry. Since 2013, he has directed his own production and a film distribution company with Interzone Pictures.
Maeck has been a member of the German Film Academy and the European Film Academy since 2007.
Direction
Heiko Lange
Heiko Lange was born in 1976. After taking a degree in sports sciences, he worked in television as a director, writer and producer. In 2011 he co-founded the production company, scenes from. His documentary The noise of cairo (2011) won awards at several international festivals.
Direction
Jörg A. Hoppe
Jörg A. Hoppe came to Berlin in 1983. He has produced and developed numerous highly successful TV formats. In 1996 he won the Golden Apple Award for the documentary Straight to you about Nick Cave.
Original Title
B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989
French Title
B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989
English Title
B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989
