NUR NOCH EINER - ein Leben nach der Deutsch Amerikanischen Freundschaft (WT)

A film by Oliver Schwabe
A field recordings film production

The film tells the story of Robert Görl — musician, composer, producer and performer — and his visionary collaboration with Gabi Delgado. As a duo under the name Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft (DAF), the two revolutionized punk: Görl on drums, on machines and as the musical driving force, Delgado as poet, singer and charismatic performer. In March 2020, Gabi Delgado died unexpectedly of a heart attack at the age of 61. Robert Görl is left behind — the last of DAF. From this loss emerged the farewell album “Only One Left”, created with Sylvie Marks at Görl’s side. The album is a goodbye, a tribute and at the same time proof that DAF’s musical vision continues to resonate to this day.
The film shows DAF from the perspective of Robert Görl, the band’s sound architect, whose role was long underestimated, even though it was he who, as composer, percussionist and performer, first made Delgado dance.

NUR NOCH EINER - Ein Leben nach der Deutsch Amerikanischen Freundschaft (WT) is not only a look back at a band that made punk look bourgeois and paved the way for techno, but also a personal story about loss, friendship and art — as a dance to music that is cool, different, visionary, unsettling, revolutionary, utopian and sexy.

Funded by Film und Medien Stiftung, DFFF, in co-production with 3sat.