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    Conny Plank Documentary Film

    Cleopatra Entertainment Secures North American and UK Distribution Rights for Conny Plank Documentary Film

    Los Angeles - Cleopatra Entertainment has secured the North American and UK distribution rights to the 2018 SXSW Film Festival Official Selection CONNY PLANK: The Potential Of Noise documentary.

    The U.S. Theatrical Premier is slated for 6:00 PM on Friday, September 28th at the Arena Cinelounge Theater, 6464 Sunset Blvd. Lobby Level, Los Angeles, CA 90028 (323) 924-1644 and the film will run the entire week for a seven day engagement. In attendance at the premier will be the film’s Director and son of the late Conny Plank - Stephan Plank - and the film’s Berlin-based Producer Milena Fessman, who will participate in an exclusive Q&A session following the screening.

    One of the greatest studio engineers and record producers of the 20th century, a world without Conny Plank’s influence on music is unfathomable. Instrumental in shaping the early sound of Kraftwerk, Plank would go on to work with legends such as Neu!, Cluster, DAF and Devo, eventually breaking through to the mainstream with the likes of Ultravox, The Eurythmics, and the legendary Scorpions. Conny’s son Stephan Plank, who co-directed this film with Reto Caduff, set out to discover the side of his father which he did not know, whilst at the same time, through interviews with such luminaries as Michael Rother, Daniel Miller and the late Holger Czukay, providing an appreciation of a man and his craft.

    The 95 minute documentary also traces the history of Stephan’s father Conny through the viewpoint of the artists he worked with. It also examines the legacy the West German producer, sound engineer and musician left behind following his death at the age of 47. Ranging across progressive, avant garde, electronic and krautrock, Plank was also a regular collaborator with Cluster’s Dieter Moebius. Born Konrad Plank in Hütschenhausen in 1940, Conny died of cancer in 1987, leaving behind his wife, the actor Christa Fast, and son Stephan, then aged 13.

    “I discovered his work in the early 80s when albums by Eurythmics or Ultravox, Les Ritas Mitsouko, Freur or by German new wave acts such as Ideal, Rheingold or DAF had the Conny Plank credit on the cover,” comments Reto Caduff via email. “Little did I know at that time of his earlier influence: that he brought Kraftwerk to the recording studio for the first time, that he was working with the band up to their “Autobahn” hit, and all his contribution to the krautrock genre and early electronic music. I only discovered really Neu! when the albums were reissued in the early 2000s. He really was a pioneer and his untimely death at 47 in 1987 only added to the legend.

    “To me, the idea of co-directing the film made a lot of sense since Stephan could approach the artists whom he met as a kid in the studio (his home) differently than a regular documentary director. My hunch proved correct over and over again. Meeting the artists brought the memories and stories to a complete different level and enabled us to paint a very unique picture of this extraordinary artist behind the mixing desk. I also felt the timing was right since a lot of the people were still active.

    “I hope we made a film that appeals to the fans who grew up with his music as much as to a younger generation interested in the genesis of electronic music,” he concludes.

    For more information about Conny Plank: The Potential of Noise and other films from Cleopatra Entertainment, please contact Tim Yasui 310-477-4000 or tim@cleorecs.com or visit our website at www.cleopatra-entertainment.com

    For advance tickets, please visit: http://arenascreen.com/event/conny-p...otential-noise

    OFFICIAL TRAILER: https://youtu.be/vzAkTb_W1-s

    AMAZON DVD pre-sale link: https://www.amazon.com/Conny-Plank-P.../dp/B07FNRJWJL

    VOD Release date: October 16th
    DVD Home Entertainment Release date: November 13th

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    No mentioning of Kraan ?
    He was involved in their first 8 albums.

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    One of the other bands he produced was Ramses on their album La Leyla.
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    Conny Plank, Der Klangvisionär
    ARTE 03.05.2019, 21:45 Uhr

    German
    https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/054759-000-A/conny-plank/

    Or in french
    https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/054759...nnaire-du-son/

    But not in english

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    I just ran across this DVD while looking for something else, so of course I snapped it up. Haven't watched it yet. Is it any good?

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    Stephan Plank's search for his father, thirty years after his passing. He interviews musicians who knew and worked with Conny, he listens to (and shows the covers for) a lot of Krautrock, and there is some (not much) archival footage of Conny discussing his own work. Lots of video of Stephan traveling around in cars, trains, airplanes.

    For an old Krautrock fan like me it's a dip into nirvana, but it has a curiously second-hand, distant feel. Conny was at the center of much of what was going on, but he was the catalyst, the grain of sand at the center of the pearls. It was the musicians who created all this great music. Conny just provided the idyllic studio in the country. He allowed the bands to reach their potential. No two Conny Plank productions sound the same. He was not a producer with "a sound." Therefore, trying to find Conny Plank by talking to the musicians he worked with is a little like lost-wax casting, where the result is due to what Conny DIDN'T DO rather than what he did.

    I feel sorry for Stephan, growing up with an absent father -- he was always in the studio -- but interviewing the musicians he worked with is a poor substitute for a father's love.
    Last edited by rcarlberg; 07-12-2019 at 09:28 PM.

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