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This Ain't California( 2012)

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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.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Kai Hillebrand

      Denis 'Panik' Paraceck (uncredited)

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      David Nathan

      Adult Nico (uncredited)

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      Nora Decker

      Teenager Hexe (uncredited)

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      Lea Wolfram

      Doreen (uncredited)

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      Titus Dittmann

      Himself - Businessman (uncredited)

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      Erich Honecker

      Himself - Politician (archive footage)

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      Katarina Witt

      Herself - Sportswoman (archive footage)

    8. cast image

      Helmut Kohl

      Himself - Politician (archive footage)

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      Bill Clinton

      Himself - Politician (archive footage)

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      Gerhard Schröder

      Himself - Politician (archive footage)

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    A review by tmdb872652

    0.5
    Written by tmdb872652 on Sun Sep 29 2013
    The 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 + no...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

    -

    Revenue

    135929.00

    Keywords

    • skateboarding
    • berlin wall
    • german democratic republic
    • 1970s
    • extreme sports
    • male friendship
    • mockumentary
    • 1980s
    • 1990s
    • political repression
    • soviet union history
    • 2000s
    • semi-fiction
    • 2010s