Oi! Warning

Oi! Warning (1999)

A young man gets caught up in a conflict between his friends, a skinhead and a gay anarchist.

Date of release
1999-07-11
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (21)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Drama
Director
Ben Reding, Dominik Reding

Casting

Interesting facts

Oi! Warning is a 1999 German movie about a 17-year-old boy who runs away from home to become an Oi! skinhead.

Development

When they started the project, the Reding brothers wanted to authentically portray youths from fringe subcultures like "skinheads (non-political Oi!skins), squatters, modern-primitives and tribes ... who all just do what they like ... Their own way of fun, fights, sorrows and desires.

When casting the movie, the Reding brothers looked for people who were "absolutely, 100% believable on the big screen ... This is the reason why the actresses and actors in OI!WARNING are a good mixture of non-professionals and professionals": male leads Sascha Backhaus and Simon Goerts were non-professionals, whilst female lead Sandra Borgmann was an established actress when the project started.

In the film, there is a concert in which the fictional Oi-group Roimkommando (the real life punk band Smegma) holds a concert, to which Oi-skins led by Koma (Goerts) violently mosh to. On the DVD commentary track, the Redings explain that they could not use the sexually charged word Smegma in a film which was meant to be seen by teenagers, so they had to change the name of the band.

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