Full Metal Village

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name = Full Metal Village


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director = Sung Hyung Cho
producer = Helge Albers
Roshanak Behesht Nedjad
Konstantin Kröning
writer = Sung Hyung Cho
narrator =
starring = Uwe Trede
Lore Trede
Klaus H. Plähn
Irma Schaack
Eva Waldow
music = Peyman Yazdanian
cinematography = Marcus Winterbauer
editing = Sung Hyung Cho
distributor = Zorro Film (Germany) (Theat.)
released = flagicon|Germany 19 April, 2007
runtime = 90 min.
country = flagicon|Germany Germany
language = German
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amg_id = 1:420054
imdb_id = 0954937The 2007 documentary Full Metal Village examines the lives of the residents of a small German village in the Schleswig-Holstein region, Wacken, in a series of interviews and visual tableaux as it prepares for the annual Wacken Open Air Festival. In the style of a traditional German heimat film, the director Sung Hyung Cho explores the relationship of the 1,800 resident townsfolk and the brief annual influx of 70,000 metal enthusiasts [http://www.flyingmoon.com/engl/wacken_e.html Full Moon Productions] synopsis of the film] who attend the open-air concert.

The slow, cynically irreverent tone of the film lends an air of the absurd to both sides of the proceedings including 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.

Awards

The film has so far garnered all three awards for which it has been nominated [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0954937/awards Awards & Nominations] for Full Metal Village at the IMDB, retrieved 29 April, 2008] : the 2007 Best Documentary at the Guild of German Art House Cinemas, the 2006 Best Documentary at the Hessian Film Award (prior to the film's theatrical release) and the 2007 Max Ophüls Award at the Max Ophüls Festival.

References

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0954937/ Full Metal Village] at the IMDB
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu60CW-Pdj0 Trailer for Full Metal Village] at YouTube