This Ain't California

Synopsis

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.

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Key crew

• Ira WedelWriter
• Marten PersielDirector
• Lars DammOriginal Music Composer
• Troy von BalthazarOriginal Music Composer

Cast

• Kai HillebrandDenis 'Panik' Paraceck (uncredited)
• David NathanAdult Nico (uncredited)
• Nora DeckerTeenager Hexe (uncredited)
• Lea WolframDoreen (uncredited)
• Titus DittmannSelf - Businessman (uncredited)
• Erich HoneckerSelf - Politician (archive footage)
• Katarina WittSelf - Sportswoman (archive footage)
• Helmut KohlSelf - Politician (archive footage)
• Bill ClintonSelf - Politician (archive footage)
• Gerhard SchröderSelf - Politician (archive footage)

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