B-MOVIE: LUST & SOUND IN WEST BERLIN

B-MOVIE: LUST & SOUND IN WEST BERLIN 1979-1989, 2015

Germany | DCP, Color, 92’ | English

Director: Jörg A. Hoppe, Klaus Maeck, Heiko Lange

This wonderful documentary, which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival this year and received the Heiner Carow Prize, is also an exhilarating journey back in time. A witty montage of music videos, concert footage, television reports, and personal archive material, the film takes us to the days when “the Wall” was still up; to a West Berlin steeped in the frenzied, creative, and avant-garde underground culture of the 1980s. As we follow the adventures of the music-obsessed Mark Reeder who came from Manchester to Berlin in 1979, we encounter many famous names including Nick Cave, Blixa Bargeld, Gudrun Gut, and Christiane F.