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B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin

Deutschland 2014/2015 Dokumentarfilm

There is Blixa Bargeld, skinny as a rake, getting people drunk in the bar 'Risiko', and an earnest-looking Nick Cave collecting 'German Gothic' on a wall of his room in a Berlin flat. Cool Gudrun Gut stands outside 'Dschungel' counting the number of clubs you can go to at two in the morning, and 'Tödliche Doris' sings at a most inhospitable Potsdamer Platz. And somewhere in between the Wall and firewalls, the old buildings and the new, Mania D and Westbam, is Mark Reeder from Manchester. Drawn by his love of off-the-wall urban electronic music this British musician, label-maker and military fetishist came to Berlin at the end of seventies, where apparently – and fortunately! – everything he experienced was filmed.

With its copious images and audio material compiled by Jörg A. Hoppe, Klaus Maeck and Heiko Lange, "B-Movie: Lust and Sound in West-Berlin" is a documentary and a declaration of love rolled into one. A warm-yet-wrecked reencounter with themselves for all those who were a part of it. And downright mind-expanding for all those who have arrived since and claim to know where Berlin’s bear got down, or even dare assert that things only began to swing in 1990.

Source: 65. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Catalogue)

Credits

Director

  • Jörg A. Hoppe
  • Heiko Lange
  • Klaus Maeck
  • Miriam Dehne (Reenactment)

Screenplay

  • Klaus Maeck (Konzept)

Director of photography

  • Till Vielrose (Reenactment)

Editing

  • Alexander von Sturmfeder

Music

  • Mark Reeder
  • Michael Adam

Production company

  • DEF Media GmbH (Berlin)

Producer

  • Jörg A. Hoppe
  • Christoph Post

Alle Credits

Director

  • Jörg A. Hoppe
  • Heiko Lange
  • Klaus Maeck
  • Miriam Dehne (Reenactment)

Screenplay

  • Klaus Maeck (Konzept)

Director of photography

  • Till Vielrose (Reenactment)

Lighting design

  • Konrad Zimmermann (Reenactment)

Production design

  • Julia Schaaf (Reenactment)
  • Jutta Freyer (Reenactment)

Stand-by props

  • Sandra Münchenbach

Make-up artist

  • René Jordan (Reenactment)
  • Pascale Jean-Louis (Reenactment)

Costume design

  • Kerstin Viot (Reenactment)

Editing

  • Alexander von Sturmfeder

Sound design

  • Jan Mikoleit
  • Mark Reeder
  • Elias Struck
  • Ireneusz Szumlanski

Foley artist

  • Peter Sandmann

Audio mixing

  • Jan Mikoleit
  • Mark Reeder
  • Elias Struck
  • Ireneusz Szumlanski

Music

  • Mark Reeder
  • Michael Adam

Participation

  • Mark Reeder
  • Gudrun Gut
  • Annette Humpe
  • Blixa Bargeld
  • Nena
  • Nick Cave
  • WestBam
  • Zazie de Paris
  • Joy Division (GB)
  • Norbert Hähnel
  • Die Toten Hosen
  • Einstürzende Neubauten
  • Die Ärzte
  • Notorische Reflexe (Berlin)

Production company

  • DEF Media GmbH (Berlin)

in co-production with

  • Interzone Pictures (Hamburg)
  • scenes from (Berlin)

in association with

  • Arte Deutschland TV GmbH (Baden-Baden)

Producer

  • Jörg A. Hoppe
  • Christoph Post

Co-Producer

  • Klaus Maeck
  • Heiko Lange
  • Alexander von Sturmfeder

Producer (TV)

  • Wolfgang Bergmann (ZDF / Arte)

Executive producer

  • Christoph Post

Unit production manager

  • Michael Sombetzki

Original distributor

  • Interzone Pictures (Hamburg)

Funding

  • Film- und Medien Stiftung NRW (Düsseldorf)
  • Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein GmbH (FFHSH) (Hamburg)

Shoot

    • 01.02.2014 - 01.06.2014
Duration:
96 min
Format:
DCP, 16:9
Video/Audio:
s/w + Farbe, Dolby
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 12.02.2016, 157817, ab 16 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 08.02.2015, Berlin, IFF - Panorama Dokumente;
Kinostart (DE): 21.05.2015

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (DE) B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin
  • Arbeitstitel (DE) B-Movie - Das wilde Westberlin. Eine Stadt im Ausnahmezustand
  • Weiterer Titel (DE) B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989

Versions

Original

Duration:
96 min
Format:
DCP, 16:9
Video/Audio:
s/w + Farbe, Dolby
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 12.02.2016, 157817, ab 16 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 08.02.2015, Berlin, IFF - Panorama Dokumente;
Kinostart (DE): 21.05.2015

Awards

Berlinale 2015
  • Heiner-Carow-Preis der DEFA-Stiftung
Source-URL: https://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/b-movie-lust-sound-in-west-berlin_