United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: This Ain't California is a celebration of the lust for life. A mind blowing movie that seamlessly mixes archive footage, home movies, animation and recreated scenes from the lives of one group of teenagers and their subversive leader, anti-hero and skateboarding legend Panik, in the last oppressive years of communist East Berlin. This punk fairy tale is a story about the subversive power of fun behind the Iron Curtain, charting... the underground following of banned western pop culture - skat-ing, hip-hop and break dancing through the 80's, ending in the last summer of the GDR in 1989, when the wall finally fell, and lives changed forever. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Berlin International Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, ...This Ain't California [show more]
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play This Aint California is a documentary drama trip into the world of skate boarding in communist East Berlin in the mid 80 s A coming-of-age tale of three teenagers and their passionate love for a sport on the crumbling tarmac of the streets in the German Democratic Republic Winner Best Film Perspective Category Berlin Film Festival Winner Best Documentary Cannes Independent Film Festival
Documentary following three youths in the German Democratic Republic who found skateboarding as a means of escape from their regimented lives. With their lives captured on Super 8mm film, from their childhood in the 1970s to the demolition of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the documentary shows what it was like for three young people living in East Germany. When they get access to an Amercian skateboard smuggled into the country by their neighbour's uncle, the teenagers create their own boards and take up the sport which was seen as an act of rebellion.
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