NUR NOCH EINER (ONLY ONE MORE) - Gabi Delgado, Robert Görl and the Deutsche Amerikanische Freundschaft (WT)
A film by Oliver Schwabe
A field recordings film production
NUR NOCH EINER - Gabi Delgado, Robert Görl und die Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft portrays the career and work of the dancer, poet and singer Gabi Delgado and the drummer and composer Robert Görl, who reinvented music with their band Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft (DAF), made punk look bourgeois and paved the way for techno. Gabi Delgado dies of a heart attack in March 2020 - aged just 61. During his lifetime, the wiry man seemed immortal with his restlessness, joie de vivre and irresistible curiosity.
One remains behind: Robert Görl. While Gabi Delgado was the front man of DAF and the face of the band, Robert Görl stands in the background. The drummer, who programmed the sequencers for DAF, wrote the music and shaped the band's unmistakable sound, sees himself as the driving force behind the band.
NUR NOCH EINER is also the story of DAF from the perspective of the man in the background who initiated the band's many reunions right up to the end, who almost lost his arm in a car accident and has been retreating to Thai monasteries ever since. Görl's perspective shows the duo's career in a new light and also tells of the quarrels between the two and the everlasting love-hate relationship between two musicians who were always at odds with each other during Gabi's lifetime, but could only enrich the music scene in the long term together.
The film is a long overdue homage to a band whose radicalism was infectiously sexy, who called for the waste of youth and who were driven by the idea of always looking forward and never back.
The still relevant music of DAF, the memory of Gabi Delgado and Robert Görl's still untold life story together with selected and impressive archive footage, not only celebrate the liberation from the eternal stink of electric guitar, bass and drums, but the film dares to take one last dance with the musical pioneers DAF, who were - and remain - cool, different, visionary, disturbing, revolutionary, utopian and sexy.
supported by the Film- und Medienstiftung (P2)