Review of Ode to Cologne: A Rock 'N' Roll Film

Using lots of staged episodes with a certain pathos certainly not fitting what the band BAP is about or the fans (who don't get into the picute at all) love in it, the comparedly few concert clips are not very well shot nor give a good sound. What Wenders was trying to achieve with this film remains unclear. The only interesting, but far too short, interesting episode is a TV-clipping from a discussion Niedecken (the bandleader) had with Heinrich Boell. But having seen this film with a Russian colleague at the Berlin film festival, I noticed, that by far not everyone knows Boell's face...