DER PIRAT
Director: Bernd Schadewald
Feature film | D | 1997
105 min
31st Hof International Film Festival
1997
It’s 1968, the wake of a new era. Hair grow longer and longer, the gap between the generations widens, the music gets louder and louder. 18-year-old Jan and his older brother Ludwig enjoy the legendary ‘good times’ surrounded by sweet-smelling wafts of dope.
Soon they get into conflict with their parents who refuse to put up with their sons’ way of life. For Jan there’s just one way out: a complete break with his parents and all the ‘bourgeois shit’. A new, exciting life beyond petty rules is waiting for him, a radical life with no compromises …