well I think not understanding the dialogues actually helps a lot for liking the film.
if you’re looking for a shallow teen movie in a cliche ndw setting it is perfect, but if you like to find out anything about that period and the people that goes beyond a few written off names and misunderstood statements all copied from juergen teipel’s book also named after the daf song this is not your film. I was angry and dissappointed watching it.
for ndw underground weirdness i recommend “die letzte rache” from 82 which it’s released on DVD with subtitels and features music and members of der plan and andreas dorau, too. great mixture of greek tragedy, brecht theatre, caligari on lsd and gdr fary tales. here‘s a snippet
i also enjoyed the austrian “cafe malaria” released 82. sorry no subs and austrian dialect doesn’t make understanding easier. anyway, the story and the jokes didn’t age that well, but it has a wonderful fun austro (mostly) underground ndw(nöw?) soundtrack and it’s available on DVD. the film is a bit like a provincial town slapstick version of liquid sky but unfortunately without aliens, heroin or gender studies ideas. this is one of the many great songs played in cafe malaria
there is one ndw documentation that i’m really looking for. i saw it more than 10 years ago on crappy vhs copy and am looking for it since - “dreiklangsdimensionen” from 81 by bavarian state tv “br”. you probably know lorenz lorenz (once in a band with tommie eckart from gorilla aktiv). this is his infamous “3 minuten ei” which was part of that show and tranlsates 3 minutes egg or 3 minutes “ay”. before that he tells more truth about underground ndw in 2 minutes than there is in that film “verschwende deine jugend”. you can watch that here.
“we modern artists are the antipole to the emotional slapping of any bygone era or culture. we think, that even if we’re a staircase wit of history we want to laugh about it.”
