Dancefloor Caballeros

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  • Berlin beyond FF
  • Guangzhou IDFF
  • Hotdogs Filmmaker
  • Hotdogs top10
  • idfa
  • Canadian sport FF
  • One world FF Bratislava
  • One world FF Prag
  • Verzio Human Rights DFF
  • E-Dox FF

Havana's DJ-Guerrilleros on their literacy campaign for electronic music. 17 people, no bus so far and only 23 hours till their first concert. 

Year

2006

Length

52/99 min

Director

Dirk Böll

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Seventeen young Cubans travel across their country in a bus. Their luggage: electronic music, fat amplifiers and a mission. To make their music famous throughout the country.

The road trip „Dancefloor Caballeros“ is about more than beats und bytes. It is about the lives of young men and women on Cuba several decades after the “revolution’s glorious victory”. While one of the youths on tour rails against the “damn Americans”, and Fidel Castro’s slogans of Fatherland or Death, Socialism and Victory blast from the speakers, Lázaro tries to clinch a small sponsorship deal for the tour with the boss of a beverages company. Socialism on the left, capitalism on the right, and in the middle 17 musical-muchachos who just want one thing – to bring their music to the people of Cuba.

Written, edited and directed by
Dirk Böll

Camera
Mark Wittek
Dirk Böll

Production
Camilla Ribas
Christian Beetz
Reinhardt Beetz

Sound
Célio Dutra

Soundesign
Nic Wohlleben

Music
Wichi de Vedado
DJoy
The talented Miss Ribas
DJ Celim

Executive Producers
Camilla Ribas
Reinhardt Beetz

Commissioning Editor
Lucas Schmidt

Dancefloor Caballeros
Trailer
  • „Just in diesem Moment überraschen uns die aus dem Theaterbereich stammenden jungen Regisseure Hans Block und Moritz Riesewieck mit einem erstaunlichen Dokumentarfilm, der seit Monaten Publikum und Kritik auf den wichtigsten Festivals der Welt elektrisiert. Völlig zu Recht: Es ist, als würden einem die Scheuklappen weggerissen, als sähe man das, was sich seit Jahren direkt vor unseren Augen abspielt, zum ersten Mal unverschleiert... eine fesselnde ,Doku noir' mit höchstem Anspruch...Dieser Film müsste an allen Schulen gezeigt werden.“
    Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
    17.05.2018

In co-production with

  • wdr

Produced by

  • navigator

In co-production with

  • zdf
  • MC2

Funded by

  • NRW

Supported by

  • media
  • EU Commission
  • FFA Filmförderungsanstalt
  • DFFF
  • medienboard

Supported by

  • media
  • EED
  • nrw