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This Ain't California

B-boy rebellion, communism, skateboarding, the Stasi…
B-boy rebellion, communism, skateboarding, the Stasi…
Animation, Documentary, History - 2012
This Ain't California
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7.3
84%
76
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.
Director:
,
Marten Persiel
Cast:
,
Bill Clinton
,
David Nathan
,
Kai Hillebrand
,
Žaneta Fuchsová
,
Erich Honecker
,
Helmut Kohl
,
Titus Dittmann
,
Lea Wolfram
,
Nora Decker

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Details

Rated:
Not Rated
Runtime:
93 min
Release date:
15 Aug 2012
Country:
DE
Languages:
German
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$135,929
Awards:
5 wins & 2 nominations

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
Martin Persiel's splendid "documentary" could well be subtitled "And It Ain't the Truth."
– Ernest Hardy,
Village Voice,
9 Apr 2013
fresh:
"This Ain't California" offers a vivid immersion in the hidden skateboarding culture of the former East Germany.
– Jeannette Catsoulis,
New York Times,
12 Apr 2013
fresh:
A trove of home videos, vintage commercial and propaganda footage and black-and-white animation dress up this energetic if somewhat unfocused look at the birth of skateboarding in the German Democratic Republic.
– Sara Stewart,
New York Post,
12 Apr 2013
rotten:
It ain't bad, though all that detritus detracts from a far more interesting history lesson on repression and rebellion that's left on the periphery.
– David Fear,
Time Out New York,
9 Apr 2013
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