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B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989

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The wild West Berlin of the 1980s became the creative melting pot of pop subcultures: music, art and chaos. Before the Iron Curtain fell, anything and everything seemed possible.

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Status: Released

Released Date: 2015-02-05

Runtime: 94 mins

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

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

Spoken language: Deutsch, English, Français

Genres: Documentary, Music

Original title: B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989

Production Companies: Scenes From, DEF Media, Interzone Pictures

Production Countries: Germany

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