Oi! Warning
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| Oi! Warning | |
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| Directed by | Ben Reding Dominik Reding |
| Written by | Ben Reding Dominik Reding |
| Starring | Sascha Backhaus Simon Goerts Sandra Borgmann |
| Release date(s) | 1999 |
| IMDb profile | |
Oi! Warning is a 1999 German movie about a 17-year-old boy who runs away from home to become an Oi! skinhead.
The movie was the directorial debut of twin brothers Ben and Dominik Reding. It toook them about five years to film, mostly due to financial constraints. It was shot in stark black-and-white, underscoring the film's gritty feel. Among other recognitions, the film has won the German Camera Award, and a L.A. Outfest emerging talent award.
Janosch (Sascha Backhaus) has problems at school and despises the lifestyle of his bourgeois mother. He runs away from home, to his friend Koma (Simon Goerts), who he had met at a holiday camp. Koma is an Oi! skinhead (also known as a punk-skinhead). He is a particular sort of skinhead who has little political motivations, preferring a lifestyle of partying and binge drinking, and whose musical tastes are a synthesis of skinhead and punk rock music.
Koma's girlfriend is pregnant, and wants him to change his ways. She blows up his secret hideaway with dynamite, but this only infuriates Koma, who blames this on the punks he had gotten into a fight with previously.
Meanwhile, Janosch meets Zottel (Jens Veith), a punk who earns a living with small circus acts at wealthy people's parties. The two fall in love, but their happiness is cut short when Koma attacks Zottel and kills him. In a fit of fury, Janosch grabs a brick and slays Koma.
[edit] External Links
- Oi! Warning English language version of official site
Oi! Warning at the Internet Movie Database
- New York Times Review of Oi! Warning
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