Underplayed Gems

Wilde Clique (1983)

Wilde Clique poster
Directed by
Hannelore Conradsen, Dieter Köster
Genre
documentary film
Country
Germany
Runtime
1h 26m
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How it feels

This German documentary follows a group of young people in West Berlin in 1982. It shows their weekend routines and how they live near the Berlin Wall, which is both ignored and made visible by their actions.

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What happens

Wilde Clique ist ein deutscher Film von den Regisseuren Hannelore Conradsen und Dieter Köster aus dem Jahr 1982. Er erzählt eine aus dem Leben gegriffene Geschichte junger Leute im West-Berlin des Jahres 1982. In einer differenzierten Darstellung ihres Alltags am Wochenende, inszenieren die Autoren und Regisseure einen Berlin-Film, in dem die Mauer für die Protagonisten kaum existent zu sein scheint, aber dafür dem Zuschauer umso sichtbarer gemacht wird (die Protagonisten baden direkt unterhalb des DDR-Todesstreifen). Es wird eine der ältesten Geschichten des Kinos variiert: Der einfache (ewige) Sommernachtstraum (hier - hart unterhalb der Berliner Mauer). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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