Story
DOCUMENTARY A 150bpm success story: a documentary about Hans Peter Geerdes alias H.P. Baxxter, the mastermind of Scooter. Once upon a time, no German band polarized opinion like these techno pioneers. What was once funfair music is today cultish, Dadaist madness. With simple, concise slogans like »Hyper! Hyper!« or »How much is the fish?«, Scooter became internationally famous and have sold more than 30 million recording media. The film interweaves private, exclusive archive material from the 29-year band history with Baxxter’s emotional highs and lows in the Corona crisis and asks the question: what happens when parties and gigs are banned? An intimate portrait of the legendary front man on all the stages of his life, and the question as to what makes H.P. Baxxter so successful, what drives him to strive for eternal youth.
Director
CORDULA KABLITZ-POST has worked since 1989 as director, writer and producer and has made several portraits of artists and music videos, including for Udo Lindenberg and Sven Väth. She often worked with Christoph Schlingensief and films she has directed include Lou Andreas-Salomé (2016) and Weil Du nur einmal lebst – Die Toten Hosen auf Tour (2019).Info
FCK 2020 - Zweieinhalb Jahre mit Scooter
Documentary Feature
German
Große Freiheit | FF2022
Germany
2022
112 min
OV with English subtitles
Cordula Kablitz-Post
Cordula Kablitz-Post
Protagonist*innen/Protagonists: H.P. Baxxter, Jens Thele, Sebastian Schilde, Michael Simon, Rick J. Jordan, Ferris Buehler, Ellen Geerdes, Britt Geerdes, Lysann Geller
Cordula Kablitz-Post
Christopher Rowe
Ingo Voelker
Mechthild Barth
Scooter
Wild Bunch Germany
Wild Bunch
avanti media fiction GmbH
NDR
OPUS R
avanti media fiction GmbH, Cordula Kablitz-Post: office@avantimedia-fiction.com