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White Star

  • 1983
  • 1h 32m
IMDb RATING
5.9/10
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White Star (1983)
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A rock music reporter and his view of the angry excited punk generation.A rock music reporter and his view of the angry excited punk generation.A rock music reporter and his view of the angry excited punk generation.

  • Director
    • Roland Klick
  • Writers
    • Roland Klick
    • Thilo von Arnim
    • Karen Jaehne-Lathan
  • Stars
    • Dennis Hopper
    • Terrance Robay
    • Ramona Sweeny
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    5.9/10
    327
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Roland Klick
    • Writers
      • Roland Klick
      • Thilo von Arnim
      • Karen Jaehne-Lathan
    • Stars
      • Dennis Hopper
      • Terrance Robay
      • Ramona Sweeny
    • 8User reviews
    • 6Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win total

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    Dennis Hopper
    Dennis Hopper
    • Kenneth Barlow
    Terrance Robay
    • Moody Mudinsky
    Ramona Sweeny
    • Mascha
    • (as Ramona Sweeney)
    David Hess
    David Hess
    • Frank
    Robert Rice
    • George
    Eric Engbretson
    • Discjockey
    Salina
    • Dancer
    Shaun Lawton
    • Chef der Eurosound
    Jinny Peak
    • Kreischende Mutter
    John Pinschmidt
    • Punk
    Stephen Linetsky
    • Chief of Ghomorah
    Ute Cremer
    • Eurosound Sekretärin
    Robert Bomilla
    • Pressechef der Eurosound
    Stefan Staudinger
    • Freund von Mascha
    Klaus Voormann
    Klaus Voormann
    • Tonmeister
    Alexander Klick
    • Liftboy
    Georg Standt
    • Punk
    Mike Koppermann
    • Punk
    • Director
      • Roland Klick
    • Writers
      • Roland Klick
      • Thilo von Arnim
      • Karen Jaehne-Lathan
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    9Submik

    Dennis Hopper's best acting performance ever?

    I discovered this movie 30 years after its production, presented by Roland Klick himself. I wouldn't have even want to see it if I hadn't heard about the difficulties encountered by the production to work with Dennis Hopper at this time. What I saw on the screen was Dennis Hopper at its best. And I mean it. I've been mesmerized by his monologues and extremely convincing soliloquies. Hopper's depiction of a frustrated, shameless music manager, as well as his complex relationship to his colt Moody "White Star" (Terrance Robay) alone would have deserved the award that the movie got. An excellent Neue Deutsche Welle movie from the eighties.
    gainsbarre13

    Let it Rock-Hopper, David Hess, it should be great!

    Roger Corman bought the rights to this film and released it here as "Let it Rock". That's the version I've seen. This movie really has no point, but, Dennis Hopper is off the meat racks and out of his mind in this!!! He's truly demented and wonderful. But that's the only worthwhile aspect. They also use footage of TSOL from Suburbia. I read that David Hess (who's also in the movie as "the arab") said, "White Star was an interesting film-it was the story of Jesus put into a heavy metal situation! I played Judas and Dennis Hopper played St. Peter." I don't know how much different the "White Star" cut is but "Let it Rock" is not about that. All in all the music sucks, David Hess isn't seen enough, but Dennis Hopper is great!!!
    5Red-Barracuda

    Hopper is the only reason to watch this

    Dennis Hopper stars as the manager of an up-and-coming pop act called White Star, who he promotes by any means possible, including starting riots. Hopper more or less saves this one from being terrible with a performance that looks to me like he is coked out of his eyeballs. The so-called up-and-coming White Star himself is a total charisma vacuum with no discernible music talent either. So, that's somewhat of a problem, while the story is clumsily told to say the least with White Star rising, avoiding an assassination attempt and becoming a drug addict IN THE SPACE OF A WEEK! Its hopelessly inauthentic from a music perspective or as a believable drama but it was strangely watchable all the same, probably on account of The Hop coasting on class A drugs.
    10bernd-pfaffe

    classic

    I like Dennis Hopper in White Star and the whole Film !! Watched it many times, and still finding new details. This is Dennis Hopper at his best, nearly like in Blue Velvet. Very special location in Berlin-/Punk, and one of a kind in my Dennis Hopper DVD-collection. The German translation is also very good, at the end of the film Dennis's voice change from German to English in fact of the thrilling final comment........... ............. .......... ........... .......... ........ AAAAAAA AAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAA AAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAA AAAAAAAA AAAAAAA AAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAA
    1A-Ron-2

    Oh my god, I had believed that this film was simply a bad hallucination

    Well, I guess that this was actually a real film, and I really saw it, and I must say that this is one of the biggest disappointments of my day. This film was really, really, really terrible. Dennis Hopper was coked up to the gills and acting 1000 miles/minute. His charge in the film was simply a bad actor and on top of all of this, they lifted the crowd footage for the concert scenes from the TSOL concert that happens during the film Suburbia (the good punk film, not that lame thing that Eric Bogosian did a few years ago, I love Bogosian, but this film was an mistake), right down to using the fight scene with the main characters from the other film.

    This movie was below low budget and I doubt that even the most hardcore Dennis Hopper fans will be able to sit through this 90 minutes of pointless nonsense. To be honest, I am still not really sure what this movie was about, a concert promoter and some Yanni-esque keyboardist. Some riots and random footage from other films, I dunno.

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      Kenneth Barlow: We were punks, man. Shit. Groupies used to come up at night. No big thing, you know. Lay around naked. No names. What do we know? Dining in bed. Silver trays. Them wearing garter belts and stockings which we supplied which was not a cheap thing to do at that time however we did... so anyway, hey, man listen; Keith, Keith gets up one morning but he doesn't know morning. Day night, night day, he doesn't know. He wants to know if it's day or night, you, know? What the hell? I mean, you know. So he opens the window and this very valuable Chinese vase falls out, six stories down, with a bouquet of flowers in it. One minute later, there is the manager there, in a tuxedo, and he says that here is a brand new vase and the girls downstairs have picked up all the flowers and re-arranged them in the vase for him. And Keith says

      [incoherently imitates Keith Richards]

      Kenneth Barlow: and there's naked women laying all around, yeah,

      [continues to imitate Keith Richards]

      Kenneth Barlow: ..."yes, well... I over there... I have to excuse myself". That was rock n' roll.

    • Alternate versions
      The US video release, known as Let It Rock, was cut down to 75 minutes.
    • Connections
      Featured in Roland Klick: The Heart Is a Hungry Hunter (2013)

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    • Release date
      • December 16, 2021 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • West Germany
    • Languages
      • German
      • English
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
      • O Astro Selvagem
    • Filming locations
      • U-Bahnhof Schloßstraße, Steglitz, Berlin, Germany
    • Production companies
      • Roland Klick Production
      • Maran Film
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    • Budget
      • $100,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 32 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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