Asphalt Night

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

October 15, 1980

Original language

English

Spoken languages

German

Cast

Gerd Udo Heinemann,Gabriele Helene Ruthmann,Monika Rack,Thomas Davis

Director

Peter Fratzscher

Writer

Peter Fratzscher

Producer

Sibylle Hubatschek-Rahn,Michael Wiedemann

Cinematography

Bernd Heinl

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0080387