German Film Days ends with cult-film on Berlin underground music and an original music mix performance by Jolly Goods

The 11^th edition of the German Film Days, one of the most visible projects annually organized by Goethe Institute in Bucharest, is coming to an end today with an event at Control Club, with the audience having free access.

“Death to the Hippies! Long live Punk” will be screened at 9 p.m. Written and directed by Oskar Roehler, the cult- film’s story is based in West Berlin in the 80s, starring Blixa Bargeld, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Nick Cave. The movie screening is followed by the German band Jolly Goods’ performance at 23:00.

“Death to the Hippies! Long live Punk” is based on Rohler’s own novel, “Mein Leben als Affenarsch”, which is telling the story of a young punker from West Berlin.

19-year-old Robert (Tom Schilling) had enough with the boarding house life in the West German country town, with his awkward girlfriend and with the hippies surrounding him. In order to live as an authentic punker, he leaves for West Berlin, where he starts earning some money by cleaning a striptease club. In exchange, the club owner, Schwarz (Wilson Gonzales Ochsenknecht) is introducing Berlin’s nigh life to him. And so, the hero embarks on the long, wild nights in Berlin’s shinning decadence of the 80s.

The film has Romanian subtitle, with organizers recommending the parents’ agreement for children under 12.

Jolly Goods band, consisting in sisters Tanja Pippi and Angy Lord, was set up in 2003, in an underground in Rimbach, Odenwald (Germany). Tanja Pippi is the vocalist, also playing the guitar, piano and pipe organ. Angy Lord is backing vocal, while also playing the drums, piano and percussion. Their music is a mix of punk, folk, shoegaze, riot grrrl, garage, pop and noise.

The band released their debut album, „Her Barium”, at Louisville Records in Berlin in 2007. The second album, „Walrus”, recorded at staatsak, came in 2011 and they have been working for the third album in the past year.

Tanja Pippi is also photographer and film author (www.tanjapippi.net), while Angy Lord has a solo project, performing piano and pipe dark morbid songs.

“Jolly Goods shows what more could be done in rock music: minimalism, calm, but also noise and precision,” says Ran Huber.

The Romania Journal was among the media partners of the German Film Days festival.