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Monks - The Transatlantic Feedback

Deutschland USA Spanien 2006 Dokumentarfilm

Monks- The Transatlantic Feedback

Everybody knows Elvis Presley served Uncle Sam in West Germany, but have you ever heard of the five American G.I.s who stayed on after their military discharge and formed one of the wildest and most influential rock bands of the 60s? Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage the first avant-garde band, The Monks.

Combining rare archival footage of the band′s amazing performances on live TV with contemporary interviews with band members, eye witnesses and music commentators, this documentary traces the evolution of a combo determined to expand the frontiers of popular music. What emerges is a vital and illuminating picture of German-American cross-cultural experience, and a tribute to genuine rock and roll pioneers.

Source: German films Service & Marketing GmbH

 

Credits

Director

  • Dietmar Post
  • Lucía Palacios

Screenplay

  • Dietmar Post (Konzept)
  • Lucía Palacios (Konzept)

Director of photography

  • Lucía Palacios
  • Dietmar Post

Editing

  • Dieter Jaufmann
  • Karl-W. Hülsenbeck

Music

  • The Monks

Production company

  • play loud! productions (Berlin)

Producer

  • Dietmar Post
  • Lucía Palacios

Alle Credits

Director

  • Dietmar Post
  • Lucía Palacios

Screenplay

  • Dietmar Post (Konzept)
  • Lucía Palacios (Konzept)

Director of photography

  • Lucía Palacios
  • Dietmar Post

2nd Camera unit

  • Renato Falcao

Editing

  • Dieter Jaufmann
  • Karl-W. Hülsenbeck

Sound

  • Lucía Palacios
  • Dietmar Post

Audio mixing

  • Miles Kann

Consultant

  • Peter Stockhaus
  • Stephan Mark Goldstein (Rechtsfragen)
  • Sascha Bretz (Musik)

Music

  • The Monks

Music performer

  • Gary Burger (Gitarre, Gesang)
  • Larry Clark (Orgel)
  • Dave Day (Banjo, Gitarre)
  • Roger Johnston (Schlagzeug)
  • Eddie Shaw (Bass)

Participation

  • Gary Burger
  • Larry Clark
  • Dave Day
  • Roger Johnston
  • Eddie Shaw
  • Hans Joachim Irmler
  • Jimmy Bowien
  • Gerd Henjes
  • Wolfgang Gluszcewski
  • Charles Wilp
  • Jon Spencer
  • Genesis P-Orridge
  • Peter Zaremba
  • Byron Coley

Production company

  • play loud! productions (Berlin)

in co-production with

  • Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) / 3sat (Mainz)
  • Other Music (New York)
  • Lucia Palacios P.C. (Madrid)

in association with

  • Hessischer Rundfunk (HR) (Frankfurt am Main)

Producer

  • Dietmar Post
  • Lucía Palacios

Producer (TV)

  • Katya Mader
  • Lili Kobbe

Original distributor

  • play loud! productions (Berlin)

Funding

  • Filmförderung des Hessischen Rundfunks (hr) (Frankfurt am Main)
  • Film- und Medien Stiftung NRW (Düsseldorf)
  • Chicago Underground Film Fund (Chicago)
  • Real Life (New York)

Shoot

    • USA, Deutschland
Duration:
2825 m, 103 min
Format:
DigiBeta - überspielt auf 35mm, 1:1,33
Video/Audio:
Farbe + s/w, Stereo
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 16.09.2007, 111500, ab 6 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 19.07.2006, München, Filmfest;
Kinostart (DE): 04.10.2007;
TV-Erstsendung (DE): 16.12.2007, 3sat

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (DE US) Monks - The Transatlantic Feedback

Versions

Original

Duration:
2825 m, 103 min
Format:
DigiBeta - überspielt auf 35mm, 1:1,33
Video/Audio:
Farbe + s/w, Stereo
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 16.09.2007, 111500, ab 6 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 19.07.2006, München, Filmfest;
Kinostart (DE): 04.10.2007;
TV-Erstsendung (DE): 16.12.2007, 3sat

Awards

2008
  • Adolf-Grimme-Preis
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