Sonnenallee (1999)

Directed by

Leander Haußmann

Genre

drama film, comedy film, coming-of-age film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 32m

Rated

U

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 124 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of teenagers grows up in East Berlin during the 1970s. They navigate school, romance, and their passion for Western pop music under the constraints of life behind the Berlin Wall.

nostalgiclightheartedwistfulplayfulbittersweetupbeatgentlequirky

What happens

Sonnenallee (Sun Avenue or Sun Alley) is a 1999 German comedy film about life in East Berlin in the early 1970s. The movie was directed by Leander Haußmann in his feature film debut. The film was released shortly before the corresponding novel, Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee (At the Shorter End of Sonnenallee). Both the book and the screenplay were written by Thomas Brussig and while they are based on the same characters and setting, differ in storyline significantly. Both the movie and the book emphasize the importance of pop-art and in particular, pop music, for the youth of East Berlin. Sonnenallee was broadcast in the Czech Republic under the title Eastie Boys. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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