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This Ain't California

20126.5 / 1093 min

Documentary, History, Animation

Overview

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.

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)

Crew

Ira Wedel

Writer

Marten Persiel

Director

Oliver Nitz

Unit Production Manager

Jan Schöningh

Color Grading

Kristina Habel

Production Coordinator

Maxine Goedicke

Editor

Sasa Živković

Animation Director

Lars Damm

Original Music Composer

Lukas Lücke

Sound Recordist

Michael Scheuvens

Sound Recordist

Simone Eichhorn

Costume Designer

Michael Kaczmarek

Sound Designer

Ronald Vietz

Producer

Anne Zentgraf

Production Design

Elias Struck

Sound Designer

Michael Schöbel

Producer

Ireneusz Szumlanski

Sound Designer

Wladimir Gelwich

Sound Recordist

Felix Leiberg

Director of Photography

Jonas Riemer

3D Animator

Susanne Minkert

Makeup Designer

Troy von Balthazar

Original Music Composer

Rainer Baumert

Production Manager

Bobby Good

Editor

Toni Froschhammer

Editor

Karen Wendland

Casting

Horst Riediger

Color Grading

Dirk Reiher

Researcher

Manuel Siebert

First Assistant Director

Kai Richter

Production Manager

Sebastian Žídek

Sound Recordist