Skinhead Attitude

• Laurel Aitken
• Buster Bloodvessel
• Jimmy Pursey
• Gavin Watson

Skinhead Attitude is a documentary by Daniel Schweizer in 2003, which deals with the skinhead subculture.

Content

The Swiss-French co-production accompanies the 22 -year-old Renee ( in the skinhead scene common term for female skinheads ) Karole on a trip through several European cities and the United States and Canada, where she meets members of the scene and attended concerts. A high attention of the film is the music of the skinheads. Musicians such as Laurel Aitken, Bad Manners - frontman Buster Bloodvessel and German groups such as Scrapy to speak. They report on the prejudices against skins that are perceived by the public as racists and violent offenders. It is illuminated the conflict between right and anti-racist skins. Even professing neo-Nazi skinheads come to the language; but these are not considered neutral and left skinheads as scene members, but disparagingly as Boneheads called ( this manifests itself Roddy Moreno, lead singer of the Welsh Oi The Oppressed, the documentation as follows band: " No skin may be a racist, because he otherwise his black roots denied "). One such group meets Swiss in Sweden and later in the film in the United States. The film ends with the consideration of the murder of two anti-racist skinheads by right-wing extremists in Las Vegas.

Recognitions

The film was nominated for, among others, the German TV Award 2005 in the category " Best Documentary ".