

This Ain't California
B-boy rebellion, communism, skateboarding, the Stasi…
A retrospective look at the youth cultures born in the German Democratic Republic. A celebration of the lust for life, a contemporary trip into the world of skate, a tale on three heroes and their boards, from their childhood in the seventies, through their teenage rebellion in the eighties and the summer of 1989, when their life changed forever, to 2011.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
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- Box office
- $135.9K
- Language
- German
- skateboarding
- berlin wall
- german democratic republic
- 1970s
- extreme sports
- male friendship
- mockumentary
- 1980s
- 1990s
- political repression
- soviet union history
- 2000s
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremierePortland International Film Festival9 Feb 2013
- TheatricalNR12 Apr 2013
United KingdomGB
- PremiereBradford International Film Festival21 Apr 2013
- Theatrical6 Dec 2013
- Digital / OTTARTE1 Oct 2019
ArgentinaAR
- PremiereGerman Film Festival15 Sept 2012
AustriaAT
- Theatrical17 Aug 2012
CzechiaCZ
- PremiereKarlovy Vary International Film Festival1 Jul 2012
DenmarkDK
- PremiereCPH:DOX1 Nov 2012
- Theatrical12 Sept 2013
FranceFR
- Theatrical26 Aug 2015
- Digital / OTTARTE1 Oct 2019
- TVARTE1 Oct 2019
GermanyDE
- PremiereBerlin International Film Festival12 Feb 2012
- Theatrical15 Aug 2012
- Digital / OTTARTE1 Oct 2019
- TVARTE1 Oct 2019
ItalyIT
- Digital / OTTARTE1 Oct 2019
PolandPL
- PremiereWarsaw Film Festival16 Oct 2012
- Digital / OTTARTE1 Oct 2019
SpainES
- Theatrical (limited)7 Mar 2015
- Digital / OTTARTE1 Oct 2019
SwedenSE
- PremiereStockholm German Films Go North!2 Dec 2012
- PremiereTempo Documentary Festival6 Mar 2013
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This Ain't California was released on 15 August 2012.
Audience reviews
1- T0.5/10
tmdb872652
9/29/2013
The fact that this is fictional and director Marten Persiel claiming to have contacted Denis Paniceck (which is only a fictional character) is more than shady."I've met Denis several times and interviewed him".[1] This is absolutely in-acceptable. This is not a documentation about anything. It's a fictional piece of work about a certain time in eastern Germany. This is not clearly displayed to the viewer. And clai…
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