Dessau Dancers
Filmfest 2014
Germany 2014
Original version with English subtitles
(Original: German)
World Premiere
Director: Jan Martin Scharf
Section: New German Cinema
East Germany in the Eighties. 18-year-old Frank discovers his all-consuming passion: breakdance. He soon finds friends with whom he forms the 'Break Beaters'. They dance on the streets and make it to the top of the breakdance movement in the GDR. That earns him his father's wrath; he has no sympathy at all for his son's activity. But Frank makes even more powerful enemies. The GDR regime does not condone dancing in the streets. But what it can't stop, it attempts to take over and control. The troupe is assigned an official supervisor. Breakdance communist style. It's not long before they're as idolized as rock stars but Frank slowly realizes how high the price is...
Boogiefilm, Cologne
Cast: Gordon Kämmerer, Oliver Konietzny, Sonja Gerhardt, Sebastian Jäger, Rainer Bock
Credits
Screenplay: Ruth Toma
Director of Photography: Felix Novo di Oliveira
Film Editor: Martin Wolf
Composer: Marc Collin, Jazzanova, Mathias Arfman, Patrick Catani
Production Designer: Jenny Roesler
Costume Design: Elena Wegener
Sound: Axel Arft
Producer: Janna Velber
Production Company: Boogiefilm
Co-Producer: Helge Sasse, Stefanie Groß, Andrea Hanke
Distributor: Senator Film Verleih
Director: Jan Martin Scharf
