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Full Metal Village

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Full Metal Village
Directed byCho Sung-Hyung
Written byCho Sung-Hyung
Produced byHelge Albers
Roshanak Behesht Nedjad
Konstantin Kröning
StarringUwe Trede
Lore Trede
Klaus H. Plähn
Irma Schaack
Eva Waldow
CinematographyMarcus Winterbauer
Edited byCho Sung-Hyung
Music byPeyman Yazdanian
Distributed byZorro Film (Germany) (Theat.)
Release date
  • 2 November 2006 (2006-11-02) (Lübeck Nordic Film Days)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

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

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The film has so far garnered all three awards for which it has been nominated:[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.

References

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  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
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  • Full Metal Village at IMDb
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