Film
Wild Heart

Tue, 11.12.2018
6:30 PM - 20:04 Goethe-Institut Glasgow

Charly Hübner, Sebastian Schultz/ Germany 2014-17/ 94m/ Documentary film

Cast: Jan „Monchi“ Gorkow, Kai Irrgang, Olaf Ney
 
"Stay or Go?" is the title of a song by Feine Sahne Fischfilet ["Fine Cream Fish Fillet"], one of Germany's most successful punk bands. A question of relevance that has confronted several generations of Germans native to the states of the former GDR. The heart of the band: Jan "Monchi" Gorkow. His political journey – from the violence-prone scene of fanatical football fans to becoming a musician figurehead in the fight against the escalating right-wing extremism – could have taken him elsewhere. The "wild heart" of the title beats within an angry and passionate thirty-year-old man who has found meaning for his power and strength in contemporary antifascism.