This low-budget drama details the unlikely friendship between a smart-aleck seventeen-year-old punk and a thirty-year-old rock 'n roll musician in search of songwriting inspiration. Angel heads out to the streets of Berlin in his drag-racer to revitalize his flagging creativity. He is desperately trying for a new song that refuses to surface. He meets scrappy Johnny on the streets and saves him from everyone he tends to alienate: cops, motorcycle gangs, and passers-by. Johnny has his guitar with him and is the first to break Angel's deadlock. A tune he plucks out is just the beginning that Angel was looking for. The rest of the song lies out there somewhere and the two head into Berlin's night spots to find it.
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Peter Fratzscher Director · Bernd Heinl Cinematographer Holger Scholz Production designer
United States release October 1, 1981 · Produced in Germany · Original title Asphaltnacht
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Tura-Film
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Germany
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Original title
Asphaltnacht
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
German
Release dates
Germany · October 15, 1980
Theatrical
United States · October 1, 1981
Chicago International Film Festival
Canada
September 12, 1981 · Toronto Film Festival
Finland
April 30, 1982
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