OUR YELLOW MUSIC STORE

by Stephan Brüggenthies
  • (c) 2011 Angelika Huber / Moving Records

    Synopsis

    Almost all small music stores in Germany have gone. But in one town, a store fights the Internet and other global changes. An owner-managed store, still breathing the spirit of the Seventies, never redecorated, with (very!) old typewriters in use instead of computers. OUR YELLOW MUSIC STORE is a ride into history just becoming history. It's a film about a traditional store, musicians, music teachers and other customers, forming a bizarre microcosm for almost half a century. It could have been a comedy, but now real estate investors want to demolish the yellow music store to get more money out of this block. They want to build modern chain store architecture.  A story like this happens everywhere around the globe. But this story is about the music store of my parents, who are 65 years old ...

    Festivals

    Exposed FF, Cologne; Portobello FF, London

    Cast and Crew

    Director

    Stephan Brüggenthies

    DoP

    Angelika Huber