The A-Z of Separating People From Their Money
Intro with Dennis Hopper
P is for Propaganda
Hermann and Dennis “The Sultan Of Swing” Hopper
A postmodern journey through the creative alphabet: Hopper plays 26 different characters, deconstructing the world of media and advertising from “A is for Art” to “Z is for Zen and the art of advertising”.
Featuring Bono, Abel Ferrara, Bob Geldof, Mikhail Gorbachev, Vaclav Havel, John Hegarty, Takeshi Kitano, David Lynch, Leni Riefenstahl, Wayne Wang and many others.
Left: Dennis and Hermann Vaske during a break
Right: Dennis Hopper practicing “Z is for Zen”
Left: Vaske and Hopper on the “A-Z” set
Right: Hermann and Dennis discussing a scene
Left: Dennis and Cadillac
Right: Hermann with Emotional Network people Anke Thiem, Boris Becker and Nadine Fraczkowski
Left: Vaske and Hopper on the Croisette
Top: Dennis Hopper, Victoria Hopper and Hermann Vaske in the Palais des Festivals
Bottom: Dennis Hopper: A man of destiny
Left: David Lynch
Right: Hopper and Vaske outside Warner Studios
Project Credits
A Hermann Vaske Film
Produced by Hermann Vaske’s Emotional Network, Das Werk and Neue Sentimental Film in cooperation with ZDF/ARTE
- Starring:
- Dennis Hopper
- Director and Writer:
- Hermann Vaske
- Commissioning Editor:
- Sabine Bubeck-Paaz
- Writer Hopper Sketches:
- Hermann Vaske, Risa Mickenberg, Dave Trott
- Executive Producer:
- Mark Gläser, Christian Leonhardt
- Producer:
- Falk Prahl, Tanja Frohwerk, Barbara Schmitt, Hermann Vaske
- Camera:
- Isabelle Furrer, Stefan Jonas, Stephen Ley
- Editor:
- Phillip Kadelbach, Viola Göpel
- Music:
- U2, Malcolm McLaren, Parviz Mir-Ali
- Title Design:
- Ralf Ott
- Postproduction Supervisor:
- Klaus Braumann
- Funded by Film Fund NRW
- Germany/ France 1998, 172 min.
Available on DVD (as part of “The Golden Years of Advertising.”)