B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989

Feb 5, 2015

1h 34m

★ 7.7

If you can remember the 80's, you weren't there!

Overview

The wild West Berlin of the 1980s became the creative melting pot of pop subcultures: music, art and chaos. Before the Iron Curtain fell, anything and everything seemed possible.

Genres

Documentary

Music

Production Companies

Scenes From

DEF Media

Interzone Pictures

B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989 Trailers

Cast

Self

Mark Reeder

Self

Blixa Bargeld

Self

David Bowie

Self

Eric Burdon

Self

Nick Cave

Self

Christiane Felscherinow

Self

Gudrun Gut

Self

Keith Haring

Self

Annette Humpe

Self

Martin Kippenberger

Self

Nena

Self

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