Golden Lemons

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Golden LemonsGerman (original)zum Film
Golden LemonsEnglish (subtitled)zum Film
Synopsis
America in fast-forward mode: German punk band Die Goldenen Zitronen (The Golden Lemons) is on tour together with schizophrenic rock star Wesley Willis.

It’s fourteen days of bus, gig, bus, gig, from San Francisco via Las Vegas to the Mexican border; fourteen appearances as
Wesley’s support band playing to an audience that doesn´t speak any German.

For both The Golden Lemons and Wesley, the tour is a marriage of convenience, fourteen days in close proximity. In theory, they are worlds apart. On the one side, there is the German band that has walked the thin line between music and politics for twenty years. On the other, there is Wesley, a man driven onto the stage to purge himself of the demons haunting his mind.

The monotonous wilds of America, endless hamburgers and bad cups of coffee, the looped Beatles cassette, while encounters with itinerant preachers and young groupies force them to ponder their creative activity, indeed their very existence away from bourgeois careers and savings accounts.
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Punk
Music
Rock
Tour
Punk
Music
Runtime (in min.):83
Color:color
Format:35mm
Aspect Ratio:1:1.85
Soundformat:Digital DTS
Year Of Production:2003
Awards: 
Festivals & Award CeremonyYearStatusAward
Berlin2003screened
Munich Documentary Film Festival2003screened
Melbourne (2003)2003screened
Companies & Organizations
Production Company:

2 Pilots Filmproduction

Film Subsidy:

Filmbüro NW

Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA)

Filmstiftung NRW

Filmmakers
Producers:

Harry Flöter (producer)

Directing:

Jörg Siepmann

Writing:

Jörg Siepmann

Cinematography:

Hajo Schomerus

Film Editing:

Benjamin Ikes

Keywords
Punk; Music; Rock; Tour
Categories
Portraits & Biographies, Culture : Art, Literature, Music, Film, Music, Rock Music, Bands & Orchestras, Live Concerts