Full Metal Village (2006)

Directed by

Cho Sung-hyung

Genre

documentary film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 30m

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 24 voters

Elsewhere

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How it feels

This documentary shows the daily lives of people in a small German village that hosts a huge heavy metal festival each year. It uses interviews and scenes to show how the quiet locals and the loud festival visitors interact.

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What happens

Full Metal Village is a 2006 documentary film about the lives of the residents of a small village in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, Wacken, in a series of interviews and visual tableaux as it prepares for the annual Wacken Open Air Festival. Taglined "Ein Heimatfilm", the director Cho Sung-Hyung explores the relationship of the 1,800 resident townsfolk and the brief annual influx of 70,000 metal music enthusiasts who attend the open-air concert. Notable scenes of the film are elderly villagers who confess to have 'heard' that the concert-goers worship Satan, and over-enthusiastic concert-goers headbanging to the traditional regional anthem played by a local fire department band to open the festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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