5.3
“B-boy rebellion, communism, skateboarding, the Stasi…”
This Ain't California (2012)
August 15, 20121h 33mDE
6.5
29 votes
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.
Director
Marten PersielWriter
Top Billed Cast
Status
Released
Original Language
German
Budget
N/A
Revenue
$136K
Production Companies
Wildfremd ProductionARTEMDRRBB
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0.5The fact that this is fictional and director Marten Persiel claiming to have contacted Denis Paniceck (which is only a fictional character) is more than shady."I've met Denis several times and interviewed him".[1] This is absolutely in-acceptable. This is not a documentation about anything. It's a fictional piece of work about a certain time in eastern Germany. This is not clearly displayed to the viewer. And claiming to have contacted that fictional character, said to have died 2011 in Afghanistan, but the "deutsche Bundeswehr" saying that no one with that name ever died in Afghanistan + n…
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