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LINDENBERG! MACH DEIN DING

By Hermine HUNTGEBURTH

LETTERBOX FILMPRODUKTION GMBH - as PROD

Biography - Completed 2019

Udo Lindenberg! Do Your Thing
Musical biopic about the early years of Udo Lindenberg, Germany’s living rock legend and an idol in both the east and west.
From his childhood in the west German boondocks in the gloomy 1950s, to his first, career-changing stage performance in Hamburg in 1973.

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Biography
- Countries
- GERMANY
- Languages
- GERMAN
- Duration
- 135 mn
- Director(s)
- Hermine HUNTGEBURTH
- Writer(s)
- Alexander RÜMELIN, Christian LYRA, Sebastian WEHLINGS
- Cast
- Jan BÜLOW, Detlev BUCK, Max VON DER GROEBEN, Julia JENTSCH, Charly HÜBNER, Ella RUMPF, Ruby O. FEE, Saskia ROSENDAHL, Carol SCHULER
- Producer(s)
- Michael LEHMANN (Letterbox Filmproduktion), Günther RUSS (Letterbox Filmproduktion), Johannes POLLMANN (Letterbox Filmproduktion)
- Synopsis
- With distant dreams of becoming a rock star, 15 year old Udo Lindenberg left his hometown in the German province to train as a waiter in a luxury hotel. When the first chance came along to work as a drummer, he took it, and left his service apprenticeship behind.
  At seventeen, he was already playing drums professionally for US troops, but under a setting sun in the Libyan desert, his dreams hit a wall- too much whiskey, too much rock’n’roll.
  Back in Hamburg, he made ends meet as a drummer playing small gigs. His desire to sing in German was vehemently refused by music producers because rock sung in German was totally a “no go“. Frustrated, he fled to East Germany and began a short-lived but passionate affair with East-Berliner, Petra. Separated by the wall, they could see no future together. With a broken heart and new songs in his head, he ultimately made his way back to Hamburg…