Berlin Bouncer

2019

A Documentary Film by David Dietl

Produced in co-production with RBB/Arte, under the Initiative LEUCHTSTOFF by Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, with support from Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.

Distributor: Farbfilm Verleih
World Sales. Magnet Film

INHALT:

Berlin's changing nightlife: From the divided city to the club scene of the nineties to today's party metropolis. Who was there from the beginning? Based on the three exciting biographies of Berlin's most legendary bouncers, BERLIN BOUNCER tells of the reasons and abysses of this development.

Frank Künster came from West Germany to a city where Smiley Baldwin, as an American G.I., was still guarding the border to East Berlin and Sven Marquardt, as a young East German punk and photographer, was suddenly surprised by the fall of the Berlin Wall. Soon they got caught up in the wild Berlin nightlife of the nineties and in the new millennium became the notorious selectors of the city's hottest clubs, whose doors and secrets they guard to this day. This film is about growing up at 50 and different life plans. It traces Berlin's cultural history from the fall of the Wall to the pulsating present. The unique sound of a city and its clubs accompanies us, turning night into day for the three protagonists and the party people.

CREW:

• Writer & Director: David Dietl

• Producer: Martin Heisler

• Executive Producer: Katharina Bergfeld

• Commissiong Editors: Dagmar Mielke, Rolf Bergmann

• Directors of Photography: Eric Ferranti, Raphael Beinder

• Editors: Thomas Krause, Laura Heine, Stefan Oliveira-Pita

PREMIERE:

69. Berlinale 2019, Perspektive deutsches Kino

FESTIVALS

• • CPH:DOX, Dänemark

• • Urban Nomad Film Fest Taipei

• • BEAT Festival Moscow

• • DocHouse

• • Porto/Post/Doc

• • Intro Film Festival