Small-Town Punks ( Dorfpunks )

Small-Town Punks (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Dorfpunks
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
93 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Alternative Footage
Commentary
Deleted Scenes
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2009 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Lars Jessen

Written By:
Norbert Eberlein
Rocko Schamoni

Actors:
Cecil von Renner ..... Roddy Dangerblood
Ole Fischer ..... Fliegevogel
Pit Bukowski ..... Sid Schick
Daniel Michel ..... Flo
Laszlo Horwitz ..... Piekmeier
Samuel Auer ..... Gänni
Axel Prahl ..... Mascher
Friederike Wagner ..... Roddys Mutter
Peter Jordan ..... Roddys Vater
Mersiha Husagic ..... Maria (as Meri Husagic)
Bojan Heyn ..... Schwaster - der Nasenblockflöter
Jessica Kosmalla ..... Töpferei Chefin
ThieÃŸ Brammer ..... Eier
Ivo Möller ..... Doser
Lasse Callsen ..... Notter

Synopsis:

It's the summer of 1984 in the Baltic coastal village of Schmalenstedt. Seven teen-year-old Malte Ahrens has just 'discovered' punk, which has just arrived in Schmalenstedt. One day, Malte and his friends are invited to a party. The question arises of how to get a girl and the quartet hit upon an idea that gets them all going: "let's become musicians and form a band!" At the same time, Roddy meets Maria, and is utterly smitten. The band's rehearsals prove to be a lot more difficult than they envisaged; worse still, their first gig is a complete disaster. More - over, when Roddy's mates trash everything in sight at Maria's party, Maria refuses to have anything more to do with Roddy. The band's disintegration is inevitable, and Roddy senses that the four friends are drifting apart. It's not until he meets a neighbour's son, Schwaster, that Roddy finds his own definition of punk and with it, a bit of freedom.

During the summer of 1984, 17-year-old Malte Ahrens, who goes by the name of "Roddy Dangerblood," lives with his left-wing parents in a farmhouse and is in the middle of his ceramics apprenticeship when he discovers punk rock music.

Punk is far from dead in "Dorfpunks," Teuton filmmaker Lars Jessen's enjoyable if somewhat uneven bigscreen adaptation of the eponymous youth novel. Like Jessen's "The Day Bobby Ewing Died," the pic is set in a northern German village in the mid-1980s and paints an unfussy portrait of a badly coiffed adolescent trying to make sense of it all. Late April release should cash in on the book's fanbase in Deutschland, with an outside possibility of Euro pickups. Carefully styling his hair with lager each morning, young Malte (Cecil von Renner, charismatic), aka Roddy Dangerblood, seems to have misunderstood Sid Vicious' remark about his only true loves being the beer bottle and the mirror. Together with his buds, Roddy repeatedly tries to start a band, because it's what cool people do (even those without talent). Screenplay doesn't entirely overcome the episodic structure of Rocko Schamoni's novel, and the film works best when it stays close to home, where the contrast between the soul-searching wannabe punks and the cows and tractors provides ample opportunities for drama, humor and rough-edged visuals. Period and place are evoked nicely; music choices are low-key but effective.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 28 December, 2009.