Full Metal Village (2006)

Director:

Sung Hyung Cho

Writer:

Sung Hyung Cho (writer)

Release Date:

19 April 2007 (Germany)

Genre:

Documentary | Music

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Cat | Heavy Metal | Festival | Wacken | Cake

Awards:

3 wins

Cast

Uwe Trede	...	Himself
Lore Trede	...	Herself
Klaus H. Plähn	...	Himself
Irma Schaack	...	Herself
Eva Waldow	...	Herself
Ann-Kathrin Schaack	...	Herself
Malena Schaack	...	Herself
Norbert Venohr	...	Himself
Birte Venohr	...	Herself
Henning Halver	...	Himself

Also Known As:

Blasmusik trifft Heavy Metal - Das Wacken Open Air Festival (Germany) (TV title)

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

Germany

Language:

German | English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Filming Locations:

Wacken, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Company:

Flying Moon Filmproduktion

Movie Connections:

References Full Metal Jacket (1987)

death metal, cows and cake - what more do you need?

This amusing, very human film begins by painting an ethnographic portrait of a small community called Wacken, in north-east Germany. We meet the local dairy farmer, who has a dry wit and an interesting idea about 'fun'. We also meet the fat community leader who has a finger in every pie and a cigarette constantly attached to his bottom lip. We meet the older women and churchgoers in the community, who bake cake every Sunday, as well as the teenagers, who dream of getting out of Wacken into the adult world. As the film is introducing us to these people and their lives, in the background we have the knowledge that every year, this tiny typical corner of rural Germany opens its fields to the "Wacken Open Air", a huge, well-organised metal music festival. The film was made over two years, 2005-2006, by a South Korean woman now living in Germany, and this fact, in my opinion adds to the warmth and depth of the film. Outsiders, especially those from other countries, often notice or focus on those things about life in their adopted country which a native may take for granted and ignore. It is these things, rather than, or more than the eventual arrival of the pierced people in black, that make the film the enjoyable and memorable experience that it is. Go see it!