This Ain't California

Aug 15, 2012

1h 33m

★ 6.5

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

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.

Genres

Documentary

History

Animation

Production Companies

Wildfremd Production

ARTE

MDR

RBB

This Ain't California Trailers

Cast

Denis 'Panik' Paraceck (uncredited)

Kai Hillebrand

Adult Nico (uncredited)

David Nathan

Teenager Hexe (uncredited)

Nora Decker

Doreen (uncredited)

Lea Wolfram

Self - Businessman (uncredited)

Titus Dittmann

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Erich Honecker

Self - Sportswoman (archive footage)

Katarina Witt

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Helmut Kohl

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Bill Clinton

Self - Politician (archive footage)

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