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Oi! Warning is a 1999 German movie by twin brothers Ben and Dominik Reding about a 17-year-old boy who runs away from home to become an Oi skinhead.
Janosch (Sascha Backhaus) has problems at school and despises the lifestyle of his bourgeois mother. He runs away to his friend "Koma" (Simon Goerts), who he had met at a holiday camp before. Koma is an Oi skinhead, a particular sort of skinhead that has little political motivation, prefers a lifestyle of partying and binge drinking, and whose musical tastes are a synthesis of skin and punk music.
Koma's girlfriend is pregnant and wants Koma to change his ways. She blows up his secret hideaway with dynamite, but this only infuriates Koma even more, who blames this on the punks he had gotten into a fight with previously.
Meanwhile, Janosch meets Zottel (Jens Veith), a punk who makes his money with little circus acts at wealthy people's parties. The two fall in love, but their happiness is cut short when Koma attacks Zottel and kills him. In a fit of fury, Janosch grabs a brick and slays Koma.
The movie is the directorial debut of the Reding brothers and took about five years to film, mostly due to financial constraints. It is shot in stark black-and-white, underscoring the film's gritty feel.
Among others, the film won the German Camera Award and an emerging talent award at the L.A. Outfest.
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