''San Domingo'' is a 1970 West German drama film directed by

Hans-Jürgen Syberberg Hans-Jürgen Syberberg (born 8 December 1935) is a German film director, whose best known film is his lengthy feature ''Hitler: A Film from Germany''. Early life Born in Nossendorf, Province of Pomerania (1815–1945), Pomerania, the son of a ...

. It tells the story of a man who joins a rock music

hippie A hippie, also spelled hippy, especially in British English, is someone associated with the counterculture of the 1960s, originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to different countries around ...

commune. When the commune members learn that his family is wealthy, they tell his parents that he has been kidnapped and demand a ransom. The film is loosely based on the story ''Betrothal in St. Domingo'' by

Heinrich von Kleist Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist (18 October 177721 November 1811) was a German poet, dramatist, novelist, short story writer and journalist. His best known works are the theatre plays ''Das Käthchen von Heilbronn'', ''The Broken Jug'', ''Amphit ...

. The actors are primarily non-professionals. The film received the 1971

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for Best Cinematography and Best Music.

Cast

* as Michi * Alice Ottawa as Alice * Wolfgang Haas as Hasi * Hans-Georg Behr as Schorschi, poet and drug dealer * as Michi's mother * Peter Moland as Michi's father

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* 1970 films 1970s avant-garde and experimental films German avant-garde and experimental films West German films 1970s German-language films Films based on works by Heinrich von Kleist Films directed by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg Films set in Munich Films about interracial romance 1970s German films {{1970s-Germany-film-stub