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Analysis of the form of the film This ain’t California by Marten Persiel, 2012,about a skating park in East Berlin, is the subject of the article. The article analyses the problem of the complex relations between fiction and reality in the film of Marten Persiel. The author tries to show the film in the context of a trend of creation and documentary in film history in relation to voices that show the film as staged. An important context of the analysis is found footage, biographical narration and mock-documentary. The author aims to describe the documentary character of the film as a description of generation of people, whose youth was in the 1970s and 80s in East Germany. The article shows the choices of characters of the film as the need for self-expression and personal liberty in the reality of the communist system.