Full Metal Village

Full Metal Village
Directed by	Cho Sung-Hyung
Written by	Cho Sung-Hyung
Produced by	Helge Albers Roshanak Behesht Nedjad Konstantin Kröning
Starring	Uwe Trede Lore Trede Klaus H. Plähn Irma Schaack Eva Waldow
Cinematography	Marcus Winterbauer
Edited by	Cho Sung-Hyung
Music by	Peyman Yazdanian
Distributed by	Zorro Film (Germany) (Theat.)
Release date	2 November 2006 (2006-11-02)(Lübeck Nordic Film Days)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

Full Metal Village is a 2006 documentary film about the lives of the residents of a small village in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, Wacken, in a series of interviews and visual tableaux as it prepares for the annual Wacken Open Air Festival. Taglined "Ein Heimatfilm", the director Cho Sung-Hyung explores the relationship of the 1,800 resident townsfolk and the brief annual influx of 70,000 metal music enthusiasts ^[1] who attend the open-air concert.

Notable scenes of the film are 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 received three awards ^[2] : 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. It was also nominated for Best New Documentary Film at the 2007 Zurich Film Festival.

References

1. Full Moon Productions Archived 10 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine synopsis of the film
2. Awards & Nominations for Full Metal Village at the IMDB, retrieved 29 April 2008

External links

• Full Metal Village at IMDb