This ain't California

In 90 minutes, we see the GDR more sharply, more clearly: the skater subculture shows that not all was grey-on-grey and drab clouds of Trabantfumes. This Wildfremd production (Ronald Vietz& Michael Schobel) by director Marten Persiel takes original clips of the 'wheel-board-riders,' straight out of the East German scene in the '80s, and mixes it with animations and reencounters with theprotagonists today. It is not just a well thought out story o...