This Ain't California (2012)
B-boy rebellion, communism, skateboarding, the Stasi…
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.
- Date of release
- 2012-08-15
- TMDB
- 6.5 / 10 (30)
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Genres
- Documentary, History, Animation
- Director
- Marten Persiel
Casting
- Kai Hillebrand — Denis 'Panik' Paraceck (uncredited)
- David Nathan — Adult Nico (uncredited)
- Nora Decker — Teenager Hexe (uncredited)
- Lea Wolfram — Doreen (uncredited)
- Titus Dittmann — Self - Businessman (uncredited)
- Erich Honecker — Self - Politician (archive footage)
- Katarina Witt — Self - Sportswoman (archive footage)
- Helmut Kohl — Self - Politician (archive footage)
- Bill Clinton — Self - Politician (archive footage)
- Gerhard Schröder — Self - Politician (archive footage)
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