Taking Woodstock
Everybody knows the pictures and film clips with all those lucky, wonderful and peaceful looking people, the summit of the Hippie movement in the US or even worldwide: The WOODSTOCK festival. Ang Lee’s film Taking Woodstock follows the life of Elliot Tiber, who in 1969 held the only musical festival permit in Bethel, New York, and enabled the festival to occur.
The beautiful film in the coffee and cigarettes cinema: Thalia (Görlitzerstrasse 6, in the Neustadt quarter, Dresden)
Original version with German subtitles.
12th of November till 18th of November 2009 (7pm only Thursday), (8pm only Friday to Wednesday).
„If you remember the sixties, you probably weren’t there.“