Full Metal Village


Full Metal Village is a 2006 documentary film about the lives of the residents of a small village in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, Wacken, in a series of interviews and visual tableaux as it prepares for the annual Wacken [Open Air|Wacken Open Air Festival]. Taglined "Ein Heimatfilm", the director Cho Sung-Hyung explores the relationship of the 1,800 resident townsfolk and the brief annual influx of 70,000 metal music enthusiasts who attend the open-air concert.
Notable scenes of the film are elderly villagers who confess to have 'heard' that the concert-goers worship Satan, and over-enthusiastic concert-goers headbanging to the traditional regional anthem played by a local fire department band to open the festival.

Awards

The film received three awards: the 2007 Best Documentary at the Guild of [German Art House Cinemas], the 2006 Best Documentary at the Hessian Film Award and the 2007 Max Ophüls Award at the Max [Ophüls Festival]. It was also nominated for Best New Documentary Film at the 2007 Zurich [Film Festival].