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The early eighties: the latest batch of punk rockers in California considers itself a generation without a future, without jobs and without ideals in a civilisation that seems to be on its last legs.
The early eighties: the latest batch of punk rockers in California considers itself a generation without a future, without jobs and without ideals in a civilisation that seems to be on its last legs. There is nothing to do around the vast suburbs of Los Angeles, which are mainly inhabited by white middle-class people. Punk-rock is the major thing for the punk rockers. The film shows extracts from concerts by punk rock bands from those days.

Title: Surfpunks
Year: 1981
Duration : 46 minutes
Category: Short Documentary
Edition: NFF 2006

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