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B-Movie: Lust and Sound in West-Berlin

Jörge A Hoppe, Klaus Maeck, Heiko Lange  •   Germany  • ​  2015
92 mins  •  HD  •   R16 sex scenes, violence, drug use & offensive language
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 ​In German and English, with English subtitles

“Music, art and chaos in the Wild West Berlin of the 1980s… when Berlin was like a B-Movie: colourfully cheap and trashy, threatened and thrown together, anxious and ambitious, clubbed and caned, stoned and strung out, drunk, drugged and - just very special.” – Scenes From

DIRECTOR/PRODUCER/SCREENPLAY: Jörg A Hoppe, Heiko Lange, Klaus Maeck
PRODUCTION CO
: Interzone Pictures, DEF Media
EDITOR: Alexander von Sturmfeder
MUSIC: Micha Adam, Mark Reeder
WITH: Mark Reeder, Blixa Bargeld, Gudrun Gut, Nick Cave, Annette Humpe, Tilda Swinton, Keith Haring, New Order, David & Nina Hasselhoff, Christiane Felscherinow

FESTIVALS: Berlin 

REVIEWS

“This archive-heavy documentary revisits the vibrant music and art scene of West Berlin during the divided city’s punky, druggy, trashy 1980s heyday… As filtered through the personal story of British-born Berliner Mark Reeder. It mixes staged reenactments featuring a Reeder lookalike (Marius Weber) with archive clips, home movies and scratchy super 8 footage, much of it never seen on screen before.
Growing up in Manchester, Reeder became friendly with the fabled rock band Joy Division and their Factory Records label boss Anthony Wilson, both later immortalized in Michael Winterbottom‘s 24 Hour Party People and ​​Anton Corbijn‘s Control. Leaving Britain for West Berlin in 1979, Reeder soon became a key player in the city’s underground scene, working as a concert promoter and sound engineer, co-managing the cult electronic band ​​​​Malaria! and playing with his own New Wave group Shark Vegas. He also dabbled in film, television and art projects. 

In Berlin, Reeder immersed himself in the city’s late-night arty-party culture. A skilled networker with a fetish for military uniforms, he befriended local heroes and fellow exiles including Nick Cave, Gudrun Gut, techno music pioneer Westbam and Blixa Bargeld of noise-rock extremists Einsturzende Neubauten, all of whom feature in this movie in vintage footage and fragmentary voiceover. Other famous names who appear fleetingly include Tilda Swinton, Keith Haring, New Order, David Hasselhoff and Christiane Felscherinow, the former teenage junkie whose life story inspired Ulrich Edel‘s 1981 movie Christiane F: Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo.”

— Stephen Dalton, Hollywood Reporter
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