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The film is a love letter to the people who make things happen, and a challenge not to let oneself be defeated by society, time, or routine. But the actual events couldn't be predicted in advance. Thus the film became a memorial to musicians Aljoscha Rompe and Christoph Zimmermann. The filmmakers wanted to tell stories that couldn't be bought with money, stories that required taking the time to follow them – fascinating and authentic stories based in real life. Tragedy wasn't going to be part of that film, but it happened anyway, with the deaths of Aljoscha and Christoph. This fact became crucial to the final version of the film.
Aljoscha and Christoph both opened a window onto their musical world – a world usually closed to outsiders – for filmmakers and audience alike. And both men were integral parts of the music scene in Prenzlauer Berg, both before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall.


Everyone involved in the film (camera, sound, light, editing, transportation, music) worked for free.
The filmmakers want it to be known that the substantial amount of material (including a maximum of 14 cameras, a film ratio of 1:500, countless concert images, interviews, locations and stories) is being reprocessed for another film.
That film, which will be structured differently and told in a different style, is a musical journey with the musicians to France and Russia and through the wilds of East Germany. Viewers will encounter the protagonists of "Flüstern and Schreien" and "Look Out! We're Coming to Get You" again and will get to know other musicians and their bands, attitudes and opinions.

Henrietta von Stahlheim Berlin, co-director, Berlin, November 9, 2008.
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