This ain't California

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Movie
Original title This ain't California
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2012
length 96 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 8
Rod
Director Marten Persiel
script Marten Persiel,
Ira Wedel
production Ronald Vietz ,
Michael Schöbel
music Lars Damm ,
Troy Von Balthazar
camera Felix Leiberg
cut Maxine Goedicke ,
Toni Froschhammer ,
Bobby Good
occupation

This Is not California is a fictional documentary by director Marten Persiel from the year 2012 . He tells the story of three young people around Denis “Panik” Paraceck, who discovered skateboarding at an early age in the GDR , continued to professionalize it and finally became part of the international scene until they broke away after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 Lose eyes.

The film premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival 2012 in the category Perspektive Deutsches Kino on February 12, 2012 and was released on August 16, 2012. Part of the film, including the zero copy , was crowdfunded .

action

The framework plot of the film is the funeral of the GDR roller board legend Denis, at which the skaters from East Berlin meet again for the first time after the fall of the Wall and talk about their past as roller board riders in interviews in a campfire atmosphere.

The action starts around 1980, when the 10-year-old competitive swimmer Denis joins two of his neighboring children, Dirk and Nico, in Magdeburg-Olvenstedt and uses them to mount rollers of roller skates on boards so that these very poor roller boards can be driven around sitting and standing. In roller-boarding, Denis finds a balance to his hard swimming training. Denis ended his swimming career at the age of 15.

The GDR authorities become aware of the scene in Berlin, monitor it and offer their control support. Youngsters should be trained on the Germina Speeder . The sporting highlight of the skater clique is participation in Euroskate '88, an international skater competition in Prague, at which the group is supposed to represent the GDR and get to know West German skaters.

As they maintain this first contact with West Germany, they manage to smuggle new boards and parts into their country.

The film ends with the figurative representation of the death of Denis in 2011 in the Afghan war and a short epilogue, represented by one of the numerous animations by Sasha Zivkovic.

background

The images in the film consist of Super 8 film sequences, interviews, archive material, e.g. B. TV shows, individual animations and re-enacted scenes.

The director Marten Persiel calls his work a "documentary story".

Although the central character Denis Paraceck is a fiction, it is composed of biographies of real people. Producer Ronald Vietz explained the mix as follows: “Denis is a mosaic of different biographies, the bonds from a young man who was in Afghanistan and whom I met myself are particularly strong. […] Denis's youth, on the other hand, are inspired by another person. So Denis is the embodied skater community of the GDR. "

The pictures in the event hall at Euroskate '88 in Prague are authentic. In addition to three actors who represent alleged companions of "Denis" as fictional characters, well-known skaters from East and West Germany report as real contemporary witnesses about the skater scene of that time.

The skater Kai Hillebrand plays the youthful Denis. The Berlin skaters Lennie Burmeister, Juppie Diens, Valeri Rosomako (Vale) and Carsten “Barney” Benecker also take part. Skaters from Berlin were cast for the re-enacted Super 8 footage.

The recreated interview with Karl-Heinz Lindner, a former MfS employee for sports matters, was staged with an actor using original quotes from the Stasi files of a GDR skater.

reception

For the journalist Ricardo Brunn, invented parts of the plot are legitimate because "with the end of the GDR the question of the reality and correctness of what was lived was asked, this lived reality was first devalued and later reinvented".

"The fact that the film has some lengths and duplications [...] - a gift. The fact that the film leaves the viewer in the dark about what is documentary and what is feature film [...] is at least problematic for a film that is supposed to be a documentary. The result is an extremely humorous and touching film. Because he rather makes the GDR a sideline and because the film does not condemn East German socialism with a raised index finger, but instead gives it enough space to make a fool of itself in its bureaucratic absurdity and joke-free tension. "

- The time

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release Certificate for This Ain't California . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2012 (PDF; test number: 131 379 K).
  2. ^ Age rating for This Ain't California . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ CINEMA START GERMANY, AUSTRIA, SWITZERLAND ... at facebook.com. May 16, 2012. Retrieved July 22, 2012 .
  4. ↑ The magic of the real is provided. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. August 15, 2012, accessed August 16, 2012 .
  5. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thisaintcalifornia.de
  6. ↑ Federal Agency for Civic Education Special from August 28, 2012
  7. ↑ Carsten "Barney" Beneker as a GDR skater in "This ain`t California". (No longer available online.) February 13, 2012, formerly in the original ; Retrieved August 16, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.vans.de  
  8. ↑ http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/archiv/filmteam-laesst-die-skaterszene-der-ddr-wiederaufleben-auf-dem-rollbrett-marke-eigenbau,10810590,10948960.html
  9. ^ Karina Castellini, Michael M. Kleinschmidt: School material. (PDF, 524 KB) (No longer available online.) Institute for Cinema and Film Culture, August 2012, p. 10 , archived from the original on October 6, 2012 ; Retrieved August 16, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thisaintcalifornia.de
  10. ↑ Ricardo Brunn: (Re) constructed reality. In: filmgazette. Retrieved August 23, 2012 .
  11. ↑ Daniel Erk: Great freedom on small roles. In: The time. February 13, 2012, accessed August 23, 2012 .