Full Metal Village

Full Metal Village
Directed by	Cho Sung-Hyung
Written by	Cho Sung-Hyung
Produced by
Starring	Uwe Trede Lore Trede Klaus H. Plähn Irma Schaack Eva Waldow
Cinematography
Edited by	Cho Sung-Hyung
Music by	Peyman Yazdanian
Distributed by	(Germany) (Theat.)
Release dates	2 November 2006 (2006-11-02) (Lübeck Nordic Film Days) 19 April 2007 (2007-04-19) (Germany)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

Full Metal Village is a 2007 documentary film about the lives of the residents of a small village in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, Wacken, in a series of interviews and visual tableaux as it prepares for the annual Wacken Open Air Festival. Taglined "Ein Heimatfilm", the director Cho Sung-Hyung explores the relationship of the 1,800 resident townsfolk and the brief annual influx of 70,000 metal music enthusiasts^[1] who attend the open-air concert.

Notable scenes of the film are elderly villagers who confess to have 'heard' that the concert-goers worship Satan, and over-enthusiastic concert-goers headbanging to the traditional regional anthem played by a local fire department band to open the festival.

Awards[]

The film has so far garnered all three awards for which it has been nominated:^[2] the 2007 Best Documentary at the , the 2006 Best Documentary at the Hessian Film Award (prior to the film's theatrical release) and the 2007 Max Ophüls Award at the .

References[]

External links[]

• Full Metal Village at IMDb
• Full Metal Village at AllMovie

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