Decoder (1984)

Director:

Muscha

Writers:

Klaus Maeck (screenplay), Klaus Maeck (story),

Stars:

FM Einheit, William Rice, Christiane Felscherinow

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
FM Einheit	...	F.M.
William Rice	...	Jaeger
Christiane Felscherinow	...	Christiana
Britzhold Baron De Belle	...	H-Burger Trainer
Matthias Fuchs	...	H-Burger Manager
William S. Burroughs	...	Old Man
Genesis P-Orridge	...	High Priest
Slim Darko	...	Pirate
Erwin Lieske	...	Pirate
Mona Mur	...	Pirate (as Sabine Bredy)
Sigurd Mueller	...	Pirate
Matthias Wein	...	Pirate
Peter Zoyt	...	Pirate
Alexander Hacke	...	Pirate (as Alexander von Borsig)
Jeff Moss	...	Pirate

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

one word title | big brother | encryption | riot | subculture | 

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Taglines:

muzak is more than music

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Genres:

Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi

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Details

Country:

West Germany

Language:

German English Portuguese

Release Date:

19 February 1984 (West Germany)

Also Known As:

Dekoder

Filming Locations:

Berlin, Germany

Company Credits

Production Co:

Fett Film

Technical Specs

Runtime:

87 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White (color and black & white archive footage) Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

Features Metropolis (1927)

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Soundtracks

"Klactovedsedsteen"
Blue rondo a la turk

User Reviews

low but high

this low budget film, containing lots of technical mistakes, like a blue lettered title in a blue sky, also is an artfilm. it is using a language of pictures (which is wrongly called MTV-style) like the early and contemporary videoart: compilations of tv-pics, computer animations and filmtakes cutted in fast rhythms with an amazing non-musical soundtrack of voices and sounds, best example is the part in the gamehall, where the players melt with the game machines. another film which also use some tv/animation-parts is roland emmerich´s early film "das archenoah prinzip" , but in it there are not this fast rythms and it uses an electronic ambient sound combined with silence. back to decoder, irritating light and dialogues like ingmar bergman make this sci-fi to one of my favorite german films.

sad: there are no more movies of this crew (i never heard of any other film from one of them)