Berlin Calling

Section: Music for All
Directed by: Hannes Stöhr


Germany, 2008

Dir.: Hannes Stöhr
Scr.: Hannes Stöhr
Phot.: Andreas Doub
Ed.: Anne Fabini
Music: Paul Kalkbrenner
Cast: Paul Kalkbrenner, Rita Lengyel, Corinna Harfouch, Araba Walton, Megan Gay
Format: 35 mm
Color
100 mins
Language: German voice, Hungarian subtitle
www.berlin-calling.de
Hungarian distributor: Best International.

Berlin underground composer and electro DJ Martin (known under the pseudonym of DJ Ickarus) is on tour with his manager and girlfriend Mathilde. The two of them spend their nights in clubs, and are preparing to release a major electronic music album. However Mathilde finds it increasingly difficult to deal with Martin’s drug addiction and the album release is compromised when the DJ, following an overdose, is held in a psychiatric ward. While Martin gets to know the other patients and starts to write music again, Mathilde falls into the arms of her former lover, and the album release remains on hold. With the internationally known hit DJ Paul Kalkbrenner in the lead role (who also composed the film’s score), Berlin Calling depicts the nocturnal world of the electro scene at 100,000 beats per minute.

Q&A with Hannes Stöhr, Rita Lengyel and Paul Kalkbrenner, director, lead actress and lead actor of Berlin Calling: April 3rd, Friday, Uránia National Film Theatre, 18.15, after the screening!

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