Sun Alley (1999)

  |  Comedy, Drama, Romance

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A group of kids grow up on the short, wrong (east) side of the Sonnenallee in Berlin, right next to one of the few border crossings between East and West reserved for German citizens. The ... See full summary »

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  • Margit Carstensen and Erich Honecker in Sun Alley (1999)
  • Alexander Beyer and Elena Meißner in Sun Alley (1999)
  • Henry Hübchen and Katharina Thalbach in Sun Alley (1999)
  • Karl Marx and Alexander Scheer in Sun Alley (1999)
  • Alexander Beyer, Patrick Güldenberg, Lena Lauzemis, Martin Moeller, David Müller, Alexander Scheer, and Robert Stadlober in Sun Alley (1999)
  • Detlev Buck, Steffi Kühnert, and Sabine Orléans in Sun Alley (1999)

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Awards

6 wins & 2 nominations.

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22 October 1999 | Nuuttipukki
8
| Sex, drugs and "rock 'n' roll"...
The movie is located in a Berlin street of the 70's - the Sonnenallee. The street is divided by the Wall. Micha and his friends live on the other side of the Wall - in the East.

This movie shows us that DDR-Kids were not very different from those in the West. They are not interested in politics or communism, but in what is much more important: SEX DRUGS AND ROCK 'N' ROLL!

In addition to this interesting insight into everyday life in the DDR the movie is really funny. There are so many comedy elements in it. There is for example a scene in which a East German soldier tries to explain to a West German why the Eastern radio is superior to the Western technology - it has less functions and is therefore easier to handle. And the disastrous party is just great... But - just watch it!

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Director Leander Haußmann claims that the film is not based upon Thomas Brussig' novel. According to Haußmann, he, Brussig and Detlev Buck had written the screenplay together, and Brussig had written his novel afterwords.

Alternate Versions

German TV version runs ca. 10 minutes longer than the theatrical/home video version.

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Du hast den Farbfilm vergessen
Written by Michael Heubach (uncredited) and Kurt Demmler (uncredited)
Performed by Nina Hagen

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Plot Summary

Genres

Comedy | Drama | Romance

Details

Release Date:

7 October 1999

Language

German, English

Country of Origin

Germany

Filming Locations

Aula of Carl von Ossietzky Gymnasium, Pankow, Berlin, Germany

Box Office

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$12,891,924

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