THE DREAM IS GONE

A film about the legendary rock group TON STEINE SCHERBEN and their musical heirs.

THE DREAM IS GONE has been showing at cinemas throughout Germany since August 2001, following a fantastic premiere at the 51st International Berlin Film Festival.
In the first four weeks the film was seen by 40 000 cinema-goers and, even as a documentary film, it briefly featured among the top 20 feature films in Germany.
The film was shown for more than 100 consecutive days in the Scherben stronghold Berlin, where it will also be screened several times again this year.

After the Berlinale THE DREAM IS GONE went on to participate in other international film festivals ranging from St Petersburg to San Francisco, at last giving the Russians and the Americans a chance to savour the music of Rio Reiser & Co. Not to forget London – the world capital of rock – where, thanks to the Goethe Institut, the "German Stones " had their first (big screen) performance.
"Destroy what destroys you" or "No authority for anyone" were the translations for the Scherben cult songs – Berlin is without doubt the real birth place of punk.

THE DREAM IS GONE has meanwhile been screened for a second or third time in cinemas in various towns throughout Germany. Please contact film distributors for information on current screening times and booking possibilities:


Relevant dates in Geramny, please get in contact with:
'Filmverleih Salzgeber & Co. Medien GmbH':
Friedrichstraße 122
10117 Berlin
Germany
Fon: + 49 30 / 285 290 90
Fax: + 49 30 / 285 290 99
email: pohl@salzgeber.de oder presse@salzgeber.de
Internet: www.salzgeber.de

Content: 

The film, without claiming to be exhaustive, tells the story of TON STEINE SCHERBEN, the most influential German-language rock band to-date, and above all broaches the question of what remains of their commitment to a classless society and the ideas of 1968 at the beginning of the 21st century. How do today’s punk rockers, hip-hop artists or "Hamburg School" bands act on the music market? For or against what do they sing?

How are they connected with Rio Reiser and the SCHERBEN, whose songs about love and anger in the 70s and 80s provided the soundtrack for the political protest of students, squatters and the environmental protection movement, who anticipated punk in 1970 with Macht kaputt was euch kaputt macht, who were in the same year the same band to found their own music-label and later fled Berlin and their image as "agitating music-box" to a land commune in North Friesland?

Between footage of recent and historic concerts, musicians from the bands Ton Steine Scherben, Die Sterne, Element of Crime and Das Department voice their thoughts on the themes contradictions, demands, enemy images, ideals and of course music. The interconnecting of representatives from three musical decades provides the viewer with an insight into the definition of the position of the cultural left-wing in 2001.




Link to statements from the film


Press commentaries:
I don´t know any band today that has such power," someone says wistfully of Ton Steine Scherben, the popular leftist German Band whose inspiring yet cautionary 40-year-plus-saga lays the groundwork for the documentary THE DREAM IS GONE. While the film may play as fiction for the uninitated, that´s precisely the point, as producerdirector Christoph Schuch´s effort to illuminate the path of contempo Germany´s cultural left will play for audiences anywhere with interest in regional politics and/or rock´n roll. Beginning at the grave of lead singer Rio Reiser, who died in 1996, the film traces the rise of "Scherben" from idealistic outfit advocating a classless society to founders of its own label who retreated to a commune. Former members are interviewed about the past and present state of German Music biz and society, and new kids on the musical block speak while "Scherben" tunes and vintage footage blend in. VARIETY 2002 BY EDDIE COCKRELL

A sensitive documentary DER STERN

A thought-provoking documentary DER SPIEGEL

A brilliant documentary film FILM-DIENST

An important and exciting representation of a chapter of German mentality and (music) history and a must for every cinema listing. CHOICES

In its own way THE DREAM IS GONE is more than just a band portrait. Sparing yet clever, it makes another contribution to the 68’s debate from a pop culture perspective......Christoph Schuch, himself only in his mid thirties as well as a veteran of the ecological protest movement against the expansion of Frankfurt Airport, Startbahn-West, arrives at the right time with his film. DIE WELT

It is very exciting to listen to the answers provided by the SCHERBEN heirs. The band members are open and honest and there is no trace of the usual cool rhetoric. Very much in touch with the Scherben musicians and yet though-provokingly distant from them. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung

Format:
92 minutes 35 mm Dolby-Stereo Germany 2001

Music and interviews:

Ton Steine Scherben, Rio Reiser, Element of Crime, Die Sterne, Tocotronic, Dritte Wahl, Das Department, Britta, Tilman Rossmy, Neues Glas, Nina Hagen, Best Before

Book & production: Christoph Schuch
Camera: Thomas Schuch
Sound: Jörg Möbus, Philip Gnadt
Editing: Christoph Schuch, Sven Ritzkowski

Worldwide sales, distribution:

Edition Salzgeber Berlin (www.salzgeber.de)

Booking:

pohl@salzgeber.de • Tel. 030 - 285 290 90

Soundtrack:

Soundtrack with german rock-and hiphopp-music: LP and CD: DER TRAUM IST AUS at Indigo (www.indigo.de).

Production & distribution:

Christoph Schuch

Supported by the state film financing institutions Hessische Filmförderung and Kulturelle Filmförderung Mecklenburg Vorpommern.

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