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This Ain't California (2012)

This Ain't California (2012)

Animation History Documentary

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

Release Date: 2012, August 15
Directors: Marten Persiel
Countries: Germany
Production: Wildfremd Production, ARTE, MDR, RBB
Cast: Bill Clinton, Katarina Witt, David Nathan, Helmut Kohl, Erich Honecker, Gerhard Schröder, Kai Hillebrand, Nora Decker, Lea Wolfram, Titus Dittmann

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.

Keywords:

1990s 2000s male friendship 1980s 1970s extreme sports soviet union history skateboarding 2010s mockumentary berlin wall german democratic republic political repression semi-fiction