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Topic: Conny Plank Documentary Film
Posted By: glassonyonpr
Subject: Conny Plank Documentary Film
Date Posted: September 03 2018 at 09:56
Cleopatra Entertainment Secures North American and UK Distribution Rights for Conny Plank Documentary Film

Los Angeles - Cleopatra Entertainment has secured the North American and UK distribution rights to the 2018 SXSW Film Festival Official Selection CONNY PLANK: The Potential Of Noise documentary.

The U.S. Theatrical Premier is slated for 6:00 PM on Friday, September 28th at the Arena Cinelounge Theater, 6464 Sunset Blvd. Lobby Level, Los Angeles, CA 90028  (323) 924-1644 and the film will run the entire week for a seven day engagement. In attendance at the premier will be the film’s Director and son of the late Conny Plank - Stephan Plank - and the film’s Berlin-based Producer Milena Fessman, who will participate in an exclusive Q&A session following the screening. 

One of the greatest studio engineers and record producers of the 20th century, a world without Conny Plank’s influence on music is unfathomable. Instrumental in shaping the early sound of Kraftwerk, Plank would go on to work with legends such as Neu!, Cluster, DAF and Devo, eventually breaking through to the mainstream with the likes of Ultravox, The Eurythmics, and the legendary Scorpions. Conny’s son Stephan Plank, who co-directed this film with Reto Caduff, set out to discover the side of his father which he did not know, whilst at the same time, through interviews with such luminaries as Michael Rother, Daniel Miller and the late Holger Czukay, providing an appreciation of a man and his craft.

The 95 minute documentary also traces the history of Stephan’s father Conny through the viewpoint of the artists he worked with. It also examines the legacy the West German producer, sound engineer and musician left behind following his death at the age of 47. Ranging across progressive, avant garde, electronic and krautrock, Plank was also a regular collaborator with Cluster’s Dieter Moebius. Born Konrad Plank in Hütschenhausen in 1940, Conny died of cancer in 1987, leaving behind his wife, the actor Christa Fast, and son Stephan, then aged 13.

“I discovered his work in the early 80s when albums by Eurythmics or Ultravox, Les Ritas Mitsouko, Freur or by German new wave acts such as Ideal, Rheingold or DAF had the Conny Plank credit on the cover,” comments Reto Caduff via email. “Little did I know at that time of his earlier influence: that he brought Kraftwerk to the recording studio for the first time, that he was working with the band up to their “Autobahn” hit, and all his contribution to the krautrock genre and early electronic music. I only discovered really Neu! when the albums were reissued in the early 2000s. He really was a pioneer and his untimely death at 47 in 1987 only added to the legend.

“To me, the idea of co-directing the film made a lot of sense since Stephan could approach the artists whom he met as a kid in the studio (his home) differently than a regular documentary director. My hunch proved correct over and over again. Meeting the artists brought the memories and stories to a complete different level and enabled us to paint a very unique picture of this extraordinary artist behind the mixing desk. I also felt the timing was right since a lot of the people were still active.

“I hope we made a film that appeals to the fans who grew up with his music as much as to a younger generation interested in the genesis of electronic music,” he concludes.

For more information about Conny Plank: The Potential of Noise and other films from Cleopatra Entertainment, please contact Tim Yasui 310-477-4000 or [email protected] or visit our website at www.cleopatra-entertainment.com

For advance tickets, please visit: http://arenascreen.com/event/conny-plank-potential-noise

OFFICIAL TRAILER: https://youtu.be/vzAkTb_W1-s

AMAZON DVD pre-sale link: https://www.amazon.com/Conny-Plank-Potential-Gianna-Nannini/dp/B07FNRJWJL

VOD Release date: October 16th 
DVD Home Entertainment Release date: November 13th

Press inquiries: 
Glass Onyon PR
PH: 828-350-8158

CLEOPATRA RECORDS, Inc.
11041 Santa Monica Blvd #703
Los Angeles CA 90025
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Replies:
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: September 03 2018 at 13:43
Very cool..hope to see it. I love pretty much everything Conny had his hands on

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Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: September 03 2018 at 16:25
Hope this film comes to Ottawa; I am eternally grateful for Conny's involvement in this album, especially...




Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: September 04 2018 at 19:36
Hi,

I hope I can see this before my time is up in this universe.

Things have a way of never getting anywhere, and the problem with Cleopatra is that this will be buried and disappear and the video won't get anywhere. If they charged $5 for a stream, I would watch it ... but I can not afford a DVD living on retirement income.

And many of the folks that helped Conny and the musicians make it ... get left behind ... when we were the ones that helped it become remembered so fondly 50 years later ... but Cleopatra would not give a cahoot ... I would love to review that film, but I already know and can sense, that I will never have the chance ... mind you ... THE CHANCE ... to see it!

Same thing for the supposed VANGELIS special ... no one will ever see it! Or hear him talk about spoons!


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Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
www.pedrosena.com


Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: September 05 2018 at 03:14
Don't know if a documentary has ever been done on Dieter Dirks, but he is still with us

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Dierks


Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: September 05 2018 at 08:41
Originally posted by presdoug presdoug wrote:

Don't know if a documentary has ever been done on Dieter Dirks, but he is still with us

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Dierks

Hi,

One other person to have a documentary done, would be Giorgio Gomelsky, who is, almost single handedly responsible for progressive music ... and he doesn't get the credit for it that he deserves!

He should be in the top 5 listing, and probably the number one listing for me, when you factor in the music that he was involved in, and the number of bands that he gave a charge to! Even Daevid Allen called him "pappa", when we had Gilly's birthday party in 1999 in SF.

http://www.eurock.com/features/giorgio.aspx


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Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
www.pedrosena.com


Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: September 07 2018 at 07:52
I would also like to give a tip of the hat to producer Peter Hauke, without whom, we wouldn't have the great recordings of Nektar, Dzyan, Pell Mell, etc.
      



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