''Full Metal Village'' is a 2006

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about the lives of the residents of a small village in the German state of

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, Wacken, in a series of interviews and visual

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as it prepares for the annual 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

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synopsis of the film 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

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to the traditional regional

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played by a local

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band to open the festival.

Awards

The film has so far garnered all three awards for which it has been nominated:Awards & Nominations
for ''Full Metal Village'' at the IMDB, retrieved 29 April 2008 the 2007 Best Documentary at the

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, the 2006 Best Documentary at the Hessian Film Award (prior to the film's theatrical release) and the 2007 Max Ophüls Award at the Max Ophüls Festival.

References

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* * German documentary films 2006 films 2000s German-language films 2006 documentary films Documentary films about heavy metal music and musicians 2000s German films {{metal-music-stub