Es is zum scheissn
“"Vienna, you dead city" was more than just a slogan on a leather jacket.”
2020•1h 14m•Released
Documentary
The Austrian Kreisky government enforced a policy of full employment, it was not allowed to set foot on the lawn in Vienna's Burggarten, the city and the minds of the people are grey. In a nutshell: es is zum Scheissn! The Kronen Zeitung speaks the mind of the philistine bourgeoisie and tells about "drug abuse, duck murders and sex orgies", the city government reluctantly provides a youth center only to evict it subsequently, a former Nazi becomes president and Vienna is burning because of the Opera Ball demonstrations. Punk in Vienna was not different than punk anywhere else. And yet, it was. "Scheiss Kieberei" instead of ACAB, Dead Nittels instead of California über alles, "Nazis raus" by Extrem on the same compilation as "We're gonna fight" by 7 Seconds. And anyway, the band names: Chuzpe, Schund, Pöbel. The outcast kids of Helmut Qualtinger tell their own story.
Director
Thomas Reitmayer
Languages
German
Cast
Erwin Bösling
Harald Rau
Martin Biro
Mickey Kodak
Ilse E. Hoffmann
Christian Schreibmüller
Ronald Iraschek
Robert Wolf
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