SWINGPFENNIG / DEUTSCHMARK - A Roadmovie on Foot

10 people - all young, mainly musicians. a photographer, a D.J., artists, who work part-time in a snack-bar, a record shop and a bar. they live and move through the everyday happenings of HAMBURG ST.PAULI, a region of Hamburg where many different life-styles and attitudes co-exist, meet and weave together. Trying to combat racist and nationalistic tendencies with courage, and general ignorance with humour, they uncover and stumble upon the ST.PAULI of the 1930's: The Swing-Youth, whose forbidden music embodied their cultural opposition and their love of life; a womanpainter from the Reeperbahn who lived and worked against and outside the social conventions of the time; the story of the Chinese in Hamburg; of the King of the Tattoo Artists; documents from the extensive social consensus carried out by the Nazi authorities on the people in this particular part of the city.
Throughout all of this, they themselves are being observed by undercover policemen, whose limited awareness makes it difficult for them to come to grips with the young group's way of life.

a documentary-fiction-collage, with the SWINGBOYS günter discher and otto bender, the TATOO ARTISTS from "endless pain" and tatoo-theo, the OLD LADY eva ebner and the TEN:

JO - francoise cactus /SCHORSCH - schorsch kamerun / MARCELA - calamity jane / EDDIE - ted gaier / NICO - melanie scarlett / PS - ale sexfeind /MORO - moro / CLAUDIA - claudia grabbe / BRUNO - psycho II / HORSTI - horsti schmandhoff /

SCREENPLAY/DIRECTOR margit czenki
DIR.OF PHOTOGRAPHY hille sagel
SOUND andreas mücke
EDITOR ursula höf
COSTUME DESIGNER annette guther
MAKE-UP fe ferber
PRODUCTION rohrbeck filmproduktion, sybille hubatschek-rahn/ZDF

MUSIC: degenhardt / die goldenen zitronen - easy business -IQ / daisy chain / stars / mobylettes / resistenzia / fats waller /

16 mm / colour / 91 minutes / magnetic / 1:1,37 / BRD june 1993

Bild: Melanie Scarlett, Ted Gaier und Francoise Cactus in einer Szene von "Swingpfennig Deutschmark", Margit Czenki, 1994

Bild: Ted Gaier, Claudia Grabbe in einer Szene von "Swingpfennig Deutschmark", Margit Czenki, 1994

Bild: Melanie Scarlett, Ale Sexfeind und Francoise Cactus in einer Szene im Tempelhof, "Swingpfennig Deutschmark", Margit Czenki, 1994

Bild: Die echten Swingboys Günter Discher und Otto Bender in einer Szene von "Swingpfennig Deutschmark", Margit Czenki, 1994

Bild: Swingboys in einer Szene aus "Swingpfennig Deutschmark", Margit Czenki, 1994

Bild: Francoise Cactus, Melanie Scarlett und Ted Gaier in einer Szene von "Swingpfennig Deutschmark", Margit Czenki, 1994

Bild: Tatoo Theo in einer Szene von "Swingpfennig Deutschmark", Margit Czenki, 1994