Full Metal Village

• Uwe Trede
• Lore Trede
• Klaus H. Plähn
• Irma Schaack
• Eva Waldow
• Ann -Kathrin Schaack
• Malena Schaack
• Norbert Venohr
• Birte Venohr
• Henning Halver

Full Metal Village is a German documentary of Korean director Cho Sung- hyung, shot in the years 2005 and 2006 in the village of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, venue of the Wacken Open Air festival. The film was produced by Flying Moon.

Content

The focus of the film focuses on the inhabitants of the small town, which is flooded annually to the open- air festival of fans of the heavy metal scene. On the first weekend in August to about 85,000 fans from around the world meet in Wacken, which is one of only 1,800 inhabitants. The film shows the Wacken in their daily lives and how they experience the time of the festival, in which they are involved to some extent with. The documentary is subtitled home movies.

Reviews

With Full Metal Village for the first time a documentary was awarded the prestigious award in the history of film festivals Max Ophüls. The Jury of the Max Ophüls Prize 2007 praises the film in its grounds as humorous and complex than " entertaining documentary, a fascinating picture of the German identity " deliver.

The lexicon of the International film proclaims: " The drama focuses equally attentive as amusing at the meeting of the peasant culture with young music lovers, whereby it comes to no problem-oriented deep drilling, but rather amusing digressions in sensibilities, whose charm is not only the protagonist, but not least the talent of the director is owed in dealing with their interview partners. "

Awards

• 2006 of Schleswig -Holstein Film Awards
• 2006 Hessian Film Award
• 2007 Max Ophüls Preis
• 2007 Guild Film Award