2004, Kreuzberg at a time before hipsters, beer bikes and pub crawls: Neco Celik the "German Spike Lee" drew an authentic portrayal of inner-city youth culture. "Neco Çelik's URBAN GUERILLAS stages the Berlin sprayer and graffiti scene like an MTV clip from the Bronx … URBAN GUERILLAS... has what most German films are missing and for which there are no German terms: "attitude" and “street credibility”. (Die Welt) "Neco Celik's URBAN GUERILLAS is like a message in a bottle from a parallel universe... The film is at one and the same time an authentic and yet artificial portrayal of the sprayer and graffiti scene: the actors portray themselves with a coolness factor that blows each frame away... Berlin looks like it has just been sprayed.” (Süddeutsche Zeitung) The New York Times named URBAN GUERILLAS writer and director Neco Celik the "German Spike Lee" for this authentic portrayal of inner-city youth culture. Kasper and Danger fall out with their sprayer crews. Time for a fresh start. 2004, Kreuzberg at a time before hipsters, beer bikes and pub crawls. "I love, and at the same time, hate the drama of embarrassment." (Neco Celik in an interview with Maxim Biller)
2004, Kreuzberg at a time before hipsters, beer bikes and pub crawls.
2004, Kreuzberg at a time before hipsters, beer bikes and pub crawls: Neco Celik the "German Spike Lee" drew an authentic portrayal of inner-city youth culture.
"Neco Çelik's URBAN GUERILLAS stages the Berlin sprayer and graffiti scene like an MTV clip from the Bronx … URBAN GUERILLAS... has what most German films are missing and for which there are no German terms: "attitude" and “street credibility”. (Die Welt)
"Neco Celik's URBAN GUERILLAS is like a message in a bottle from a parallel universe... The film is at one and the same time an authentic and yet artificial portrayal of the sprayer and graffiti scene: the actors portray themselves with a coolness factor that blows each frame away... Berlin looks like it has just been sprayed.” (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
The New York Times named URBAN GUERILLAS writer and director Neco Celik the "German Spike Lee" for this authentic portrayal of inner-city youth culture. Kasper and Danger fall out with their sprayer crews. Time for a fresh start. 2004, Kreuzberg at a time before hipsters, beer bikes and pub crawls. "I love, and at the same time, hate the drama of embarrassment." (Neco Celik in an interview with Maxim Biller)