Asphalt Night (1980)
1h 30m
Running Time
October 15, 1980Release Date
Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.
Gerd Udo Heinemann
Angel
Thomas Davis
Johnny
Monika Rack
Tina
Gabriele Helene Ruthmann
Nelly
Peter Fratzscher
Director
Michael Wiedemann
Producer
Lothar Meid
Composer
Gunther Hahn
Sound
Details.
Wiki.
Peter Fratzscher wrote and directed Asphaltnacht, which is based on the script. The production was made for ZDF.