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At first glance, Wacken is just like any other German village—quiet and full of cows and corn. But every August, the village is flooded with 40,000 heavy metal fans from all over the world for the Wacken Open Air festival. Sung-Hyung Cho’s documentary is a study of the bizarre, amicable meeting of two cultures, particularly of the rural community whose identity and stability has become inextricable connected with the heavy metal festival. Stream now

Full Metal Village won Best Documentary at the 2006 Hessian Film Awards. In 2007, it became the first documentary to ever receive the Max Ophüls Award.

Full Metal Village
Dir. Sung-Hyung Cho
Germany, 2006
90 min.

Now streaming worldwide via Goethe on Demand, for free.


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