Sonnenallee (film)

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Movie
Original title Sonnenallee
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1999
length 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Leander Haussmann
script Thomas Brussig ,
Detlev Buck ,
Leander Haußmann
production Claus buoy ,
Detlev Buck
music Stephen Keusch ,
Paul Lemp
camera Peter Krause
cut Sandy Saffeels
occupation

Sonnenallee is a German comedy film by Leander Haußmann from 1999. It focuses on the life of young people in East Berlin in the face of the Berlin Wall in the GDR in the 1970s. The title of the film refers to the street of the same name in Berlin . At the southern end of Sonnenallee there was a border crossing between West and East Berlin during the division of Germany.

The script was developed jointly by Thomas Brussig , Detlev Buck and Leander Haußmann. Brussig's novel On the Shorter End of Sonnenallee was published that same year. By 2003, more than 2.6 million cinema-goers in Germany saw the film.

action

The story of Michael Ehrenreich and his best friend Mario is told in partly loosely connected episodes. Both live at the shorter end of Sonnenallee, attend EOS ( Extended Secondary School ) Wilhelm Pieck and, like the other guys from the clique , are about to graduate from high school. In addition to the question of whether one should sign up for three years with the NVA for the sake of studying , the largely forbidden western pop and rock music of the 1970s, especially that of the Rolling Stones , and of course first love or girls play for they play a big role. In doing so, they also struggle with growing up in a world in which they are surrounded by the harassment and dangers of the GDR border regime.

Micha's uncle Heinz from West Berlin very often visits the Ehrenreich family in East Berlin and always complains that everything is built with asbestos and how bad the GDR is, not to mention its future prospects. However, it is he who eventually dies of lung cancer .

The fact that Michael's friend Mario is obliged to join the Stasi for personal and existential reasons - his girlfriend is pregnant - is a severe blow to their friendship for Michael. The final sequence shows that Michael's courtship for his great love Miriam is finally successful.

background

The film depicts the life of young people in East Berlin and on the Berlin sector boundary in 1973 in a humorous way. The film is not always true to history and sometimes deliberately exaggerates typical problems of the GDR citizens in order to create a plot that everyone understands without having to read a history book beforehand, as Haussmann notes in the interview.

The film was preceded by almost three years of preparation. It was Haussmann's first feature film; the director was still artistic director at the Schauspielhaus Bochum at that time . At that time, unknown actors played the main roles, while many supporting roles are filled with highly decorated actors.

Many critics and also the Delphi Filmverleih see Haußmann's film NVA as the indirect continuation of Sonnenallee, but with different characters and actors.

Reviews

“The directorial debut of the Bochum theater prince Leander Haußmann does not have a story in the narrower sense. But whoever leads his great actors so well doesn't need more than a few recurring motifs. [...] Conclusion: Small everyday life in the GDR is big.

- Cinema

"Well-worn gags, which are often based on schadenfreude, as well as anecdotes primarily aimed at superficial recognition effects, make it an incoherent number program. In addition, there is negligent political carelessness. "

- Lexicon of international film

“[S] atirical number program with a red thread that is sometimes slightly slack. [...] The hilarious Song of Songs, performed throughout by excellent actors, testifies to the sovereignty of those Ossis who don't want the GDR back, but who don't let Pharisees spoil their memories of their lives in it either. "

- Eulenspiegel

Awards

  • German Film Prize 2000: Silver Film Prize in the “Best Feature Film” category; Film award in gold for the production design
  • Bogey (1999)
  • Jupiter 2000: "Best German Film"
  • “Particularly valuable” rating: awarded by the German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden

music

The groups that underline the film musically include:

Remarks

  • The power outage in Sonnenallee during GDR times really did happen, but not because of the West stereo system used in the film.
  • The film set with its old buildings, the street corner close to the wall and a western viewing platform within shouting distance ( Berliner Straße on the premises of the Babelsberg film studio) resembles the corner of Bernauer Straße and Eberswalder Straße . In contrast, there is little resemblance to the area around the real Sonnenallee border crossing.
Playground of the former 30th POS "Paul Wengels" in Berlin-Köpenick, Allende-Viertel II
  • The recordings for the legendary dance scene were made in the former 30th POS "Paul Wengels" in Allende-Viertel II in Berlin-Köpenick. Since this former school had not been used as such since the summer of 1991, but its furnishings were still almost in their original condition, it offered the ideal backdrop for the film. A few exterior shots were also made in the playground.
  • The theatrical version and the version published on DVD and video are slightly shortened compared to the TV version. First and foremost, more serious scenes were cut.
  • On the stairs to Miriam's apartment met Micha Winfried Glatzeder , in the successful DEFA -Spielfilm The Legend of Paul and Paula had played in 1973 the role of Paul. The latter offers him a hatchet that Micha doesn't need. When Glatzeder disappears into the opposite apartment, you can see a sign with "Paul and Paula" on the door of the apartment.
  • The "West-Reisebus" shown at the beginning with the registration number BV 2081 is a car from Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe BVG rented for the film, which was used in everyday life for driving school and occasional special purposes.
  • The original yellow newspaper kiosk from the film is located on the premises of the Babelsberg Film Park and can still be viewed.
  • The record that saved Wuschel's life when he was shot ( "It's broken - both of you! It was a double album ..." ) is Exile on Main St. by the Rolling Stones .

Adaptation

  • In the Austrian capital Vienna, a street in the 22nd district was named after the film.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Film hit list: Annual list (German) 2003 ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Filmförderungsanstalt, queried on September 25, 2009. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ffa.de
  2. ↑ Jasmin Herzog: An almost normal youth. Retrieved October 16, 2019 .
  3. ↑ cf. cinema.de
  4. ↑ Sonnenallee. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. ^ Renate Holland-Moritz : The film heroes of the east . In: Eulenspiegel , 45./53. Vol., No. 12/99, ISSN  0423-5975 , p. 46 f., Here p. 46.
  6. ↑ Sonnenallee. Interview with Leander Haußmann and Thomas Brussig. Retrieved June 25, 2019 .
  7. ↑ www.schnittberichte.com: Comparison of the normal version and the TV extended version
  8. ↑ Sonnenallee. In: Vienna History Wiki. Retrieved November 24, 2019 .