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Dog $hit (HAWAiiAN GARDENS)

In a strip mall somewhere in the glaring dust of Los Angeles county, a 17-year-old student finds her heart caught between a young German Internet gangster and her jealous old mentor.

Baldi wants Shulzov. Rosa wants Baldi. Shulzov is jealous.
Baldi is thirty. Rosa is seventeen. Schulzov is seventy.
Rosa is a student. Baldi is a copyright pirate. Shulzov is a famous writer.
Rosa's passion is books. Baldi's passion is money. Shulzov's passion is Rosa.
Rosa would rather sleep with Baldi.
Shulzov would rather kill Baldi.
Baldi would rather die for Rosa.

Is Baldi a monster? Is Rosa a bitch? Is Shulzov an enigma?
Hawaiian Gardens is a triangled love and detective story about big time copyright fraud and a bigger time crush.

Percy Adlon was born in 1935 in Munich and studied Art, Theater and German Literature at the Ludwigs-Maximilian-University in Munich. After three years as a stage actor, he worked as a narrator and editor of a literature series for radio and television. In 1970, he started his film work for television and made more than 150 documentaries about art and the human condition. His first feature film, Céleste (1981), drew international attention. His film Bagdad Café (Out of Rosenheim,1987) was a great success, winning the Best Film Award in Rio de Janeiro and two Césars. Together with his wife, Eleonore Adlon, he has written and produced numerous films, including: Sugarbaby (1984), Rosalie Goes Shopping (1989), Salmonberries (1991) winner of the Grand Prix des Amériques in Montreal, the TV-movie The Glamorous World of the Adlon Hotel (1997), a series of 22 short films without words, Die Strausskiste (2000), Dog$hit (aka HAWAiiAN GARDENS, 2001), Koenig's Sphere (2003), and Orbela's People (2007).
 

Genre Drama
Category Feature Film Cinema
Year of Production 2001
Director Percy Adlon
Screenplay Eleonore Adlon, Percy Adlon
Director of Photography Rudolpho Paul
Editor Jochen Kuenstler
Music by Bob Telson
Production Design Bernt Amadeus Capra, Camilla Nagler
Production Company Pelemele Film/Munich & Santa Monica, in co-production with BR/Munich, Leora Films/Santa Monica
Principal Cast Richard Bradford, André Eisermann, Valeria Hernandez
Length 107 min, 2,928 m
Format DV PAL
Blow-up 35 mm, Color, 1:1.85
Original Version English/German
Sound Technology Stereo

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