Film
This Ain't California
Germany- Age rating
- NR
- Director
- Marten Persiel
- Year
- 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.
Top cast
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)
Directed by
Marten Persiel
Written by
Ira Wedel
Produced by
Ronald Vietz, Michael Schöbel
