Producer

Leopold Hoesch

Direction

Lukas Hoffmann

Producer

Vera Bertram

Genre

History

Transmitter

WDR

Length

1 x 45'

Editor

Year

2017

OUR COUNTRY 1979

Everything new

1979, the year of the dawn of a new era.
The new German wave developed away from disco music.
Although it sings in German, it no longer has anything to do with the old Schlager.

Extrabreit stirred up the German music scene from Hagen of all places.
Kai Havaii, the new frontman from 1979, remembers early sessions.
A new group is also involved in regional politics: The Greens.
Pretty flower girls cavort at the Federal Garden Show, while other ladies from Bonn cause a genuine spy scandal.
Mata Hari sends her regards.
On television, the US series Holocaust broadcast on WDR is not the only thing that shocks.
At home in Troisdorf, Christel Neudeck and her husband see television pictures of Vietnamese refugees in the South China Sea.
Together they set off on one of the largest rescue operations, the Cap Anamur.
And while the Fussbroichs, the mother of all docusoaps, play themselves into the hearts of their viewers from 1979 onwards, a new artistic director at the Bochum Schauspielhaus is creating a lot of theater: Claus Peymann.
He brings many new actors with him and fires half of the old ensemble.
A turning point: Everything different, everything new!
The film is narrated by Christian Wunderlich, who was born on
July 12, 1979 in Cologne.
He tells the stories and events of the year of his birth and turns the film into a personal journey through time.
First broadcast: Friday,
October 13, 2017 at 20:15 on WDR

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