Verschwende Deine Jugend

Verschwende Deine Jugend (Waste/Squander Your Youth) is a 2003 German fiction film set in 1981 at the time of the "Neue Deutsche Welle" movement in German pop. Its 19-year-old central character moves from the countryside to the city of Munich to work as a bank trainee, and becomes manager of his friends' band. Apollo Schwabing. He books them as opening act for a concert starring the German band Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft (German-American Friendship), one of whose songs gives the film its title. According to the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), the film was called Play It Loud! when released in English speaking countries, although it doesn't seem to have had much exposure outside the German-speaking world.
== Links To Peel ==
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Peel doesn't make a visual appearance in the film, but his voice does, when he presents the band D.A.F. on radio, which probably was from an old broadcast in the early 80's. The film's soundtrack includes tracks by other artists of the era who were regularly played by Peel, including the Human League, XTC, and the Cure.
== External Links ==
* Wikipedia (German)
* IMDb
Category:Films