This Ain't California

6.5201293 min

DocumentaryHistoryAnimation

"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 as Denis 'Panik' Paraceck (uncredited),David Nathan as Adult Nico (uncredited),Nora Decker as Teenager Hexe (uncredited),Lea Wolfram as Doreen (uncredited),Titus Dittmann as Self - Businessman (uncredited),Erich Honecker as Self - Politician (archive footage),Katarina Witt as Self - Sportswoman (archive footage),Helmut Kohl as Self - Politician (archive footage)