The genre that made robots dance before robots existed.
The fourth in a series of feature-length documentaries about Progressive rock written and directed by Adele Schmidt and José Zegarra Holder. Krautrock, Part 1 focuses on German progressive rock, popularly known as Krautrock, from in and around the Cologne, Düsseldorf, and Hamburg regions of Germany. Artist featured include Kraftwerk, Neu, Can, Faust and others.
Direction
Patient, reverent treatment of living legends
Sound
Archive footage that actually sounds incredible
Production
Access to reclusive pioneers who rarely speak
Director
Adele Schmidt
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Krautrock emerged from 1968's student movements and Germany's desperate need to create non-American, non-Nazi-associated culture—explaining why these bands treated 'catchy' as a dirty word.
The 'Romantic Warriors' series took eight years between Parts III and IV because Schmidt and Holder refused crowdfunding, financing entirely through pre-orders from a cult fanbase of prog-obsessives.
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