Director: Cordula Kablitz-Post
With: Kreator, Scott Ian (Anthrax), Chuck Billy (Testament), Nergal (Behemoth)
Language: English, German, hebrew subtitles
Hate & Hope!
Celebrating four decades of the giant German thrash metal band Kreator with a brand-new documentary film and a metal event, including a short introduction by Yishai Sweartz, Israel's top metal show importer and the person behind four of Kreator's five live shows in Israel over the years. After the screening, there will be a video conversation with the director, hosted by veteran non-musician and devoted metalhead Alex Drool. Plus, a pop-up Metal Shop stall outside the venue!
Kreator – Hate & Hope
To their fans worldwide, they are gods, but their music seems possessed by the devil – more aggressive, faster, and more uncompromising than others. The German band KREATOR has long since reached the pinnacle of the thrash metal scene. This film tells the forty-year history of the celebrated metal band for the first time, from their founding as a school band in 1982 in the Ruhr area to the grand international stages of their current world tour. Then as now, they stand against the hatred and the abysses of our society. Shrill tones, virtuosic guitar riffs, and energetic drumbeats process the turmoil in our civilization with tremendous willpower and creativity. Between Hannah Arendt quotes and headless corpses, emerges a well-crafted poetry of chaos full of symbols of horror – a musical Molotov cocktail against evil with a cathartic effect.
Total duration approx. 150 mins.
The screening is in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Israel.