Breaking the rules

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Movie
Original title Breaking the Rules
- Across American Counterculture
Country of production Germany , USA
original language English
Publishing year 2005
length 94 minutes
Rod
Director Marco Müller
script Marco Müller
Angie J. Koch
production modern film
Angie J. Koch
camera Roland Breitschuh
cut Dietmar Deissler

Breaking the Rules - Across American Counterculture is a German documentary about the history of American counterculture , from the beat generation in New York and San Francisco to the beginnings of hip-hop in the Bronx .

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In search of the key moments of the respective movement, the film travels from coast to coast and encounters important contemporary witnesses who bring countercultures back to life through their stories.

Together with Ruth Weiss , Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Michael McClure , the viewer dives into the clubs of the 1950s in the Village and in North Beach, where jazz and poetry meet. He and Amiri Baraka and Melvin van Peebles dream of a more just world in which black and white sit as brothers at a table, fights the Vietnam War with Anne Waldman and Ed Sanders , cruises the highways with Peter Fonda , celebrates with Wavy Gravy and Ray Manzarek the Summer of Love and witnessed the first hip-hop block parties in the Bronx alongside Afrika Bambaataa , RZA , Kurtis Blow and Grandmaster CAZ.

The viewer encounters a phenomenon that connects all movements. The commercialization of counterculture. The film examines how, after an initial phase of distrust and rejection, the market takes over the codes of the counterculture and allows them to become part of everyday culture .

Award

  • 2006: Main Prize of the Festival di Palazzo Venezia

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