The Road to God Knows Where

German documentary, black-and-white, 1990, by Ulli M. Schüppel, Language: English, Subtitles: Hungarian, 113'

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SCREENINGS

09.05. 21:00
Uránia

Directed by Uli M. Schüppel
Screenplay by Uli M. Schüppel
Director of photography: Uli M. Schüppel
Music by Nick Cave Cast: Blixa Bargeld, Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Rayner Jesson, Lydia Lunch, Kid Congo Powers 
Production: Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB), Mute Films, uMs-productions

With „The Road to God knows where“ german director Uli M Schueppel set out on a five week odyssey of the USA with Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds with never a thought of making just an income generating, concert video, side-order to the groups recording career. Schueppel was primarily interested in the six personalities involved (knowing, as he did, all of them personally) and in studying these individuals and the environment in which they often find themselves together. Armed with only one 16mm-camera and an assistant with cassette machine, Schueppel offers up a disarmingly frank and intimate look at these characters and their “behavioural sink“. Rock’n’roll life on the road has rarely been so accurately documented as this.