Directors: David Dawkins, Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker
Editors: David Dawkins, Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker
Sound: Alan Moulder
Music: Depeche Mode
With: Martin Gore, David Gahan, Andrew Fletcher, Alan Wilder
Producer: Frazer Pennebaker
Executive Producers: Daniel Miller, Bruce Kirkland
Production: Mute Films in co-production with Pennebaker Associates/Vision Video Ltd.
Distribution Germany: Mute Tonträger, a division of EMI Music Germany GmbH & Co. KG
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Selected Filmography of Chris Hegedus: Elaine Stritch at Liberty, 2002; Startup.com, 2001; Down from the Mountain, 2000; Jerry Lee Lewis: The Story of Rock'n Roll, 1991; Jimi Plays Monterey, 1986.
Selected Filmography D.A. Pennebaker: Down From the Mountain, 2000; Jerry Lee Lewis: The Story of Rock'n Roll, 1991; Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, 1973; One P.M., 1972; Don't Look Back, 1967.
In “Depeche Mode: 101”, documentary pioneer D.A. Pennebaker (“Primary“) stays true to the fundamentals of Direct Cinema, the movement he himself helped to establish. A persevering but unobtrusive companion, he documents the every day life of the British synthpop act on their 1988 USA tour. In other sequences, he observes a group of Depeche Mode fans, who were invited to follow their heroes from gig to gig in their own bus. The contrasting parallel montage of the two stories is more revealing than voice-over commentary could ever be: while the band members are professionals who go from one publicity opportunity to the next, try to spare their energy for the shows, and at times indulge in melancholic thoughts about less stressful times, the fans lead rock ’n’ roll lives on their trip from stadium to stadium, and some of them display true star qualities.