Sonnenallee

Sonnenallee Sun Avenue or Sun Alley is a 1999 comedy film about life in East Berlin in the late 1970s. The movie was directed by Leander Haumann. The film was released shortly before the corresponding novel, Am krzeren 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 popart and in particular, pop music, for the youth of East Berlin. The Sonnenallee is an actual street in Berlin that was intersected by the border between East and West during the time of the Berlin Wall, although it bears little resemblance to the film set. Sonnenallee was broadcast in the Czech Republic under the title Eastie Boys.

The film was considered by manywho? to be a glorification of the GDR and was seen to be playing down certain aspects of life in the GDR. As a result, some reviews such as those in Der Spiegel criticized the movie. But manywho? saw this criticism as far disproportionate and the film was well received by the majority of the viewers.

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