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7 October 1999 (Germany) moreTagline:
Party in WILD WILD East. morePlot:
A group of kids grow up on the short, wrong (east) side of the Sonnenallee in Berlin, right next to... more | add synopsisAwards:
6 wins & 1 nomination moreUser Comments:
Better and more nuanced than Goodbye Lenin more (13 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Alexander Scheer | ... | Michael 'Micha' Ehrenreich | |
| Alexander Beyer | ... | Mario | |
| Katharina Thalbach | ... | Mutter Ehrenreich | |
| Teresa Weißbach | ... | Miriam Sommer | |
| Detlev Buck | ... | ABV | |
| Henry Hübchen | ... | Vater Ehrenreich | |
| Ignaz Kirchner | ... | Onkel Heinz | |
| Robert Stadlober | ... | Wuschel | |
| Annika Kuhl | ... | Sabine Ehrenreich | |
| Elena Meißner | ... | Sabrina | |
| Horst Lebinsky | ... | Grenzer | |
| Martin Moeller | ... | Kosscke | |
| Patrick Güldenberg | ... | Appel | |
| David Müller | ... | Brötchen | |
| Margit Carstensen | ... | Direktorin |
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101 minCountry:
GermanyLanguage:
GermanColor:
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1.85 : 1 moreSound Mix:
DolbyFun Stuff
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Miriam's neighbors are called Paul and Paula and Winfried Glatzeder plays the neighbor Paul. This is a reference to Die Legende von Paul und Paula (1973), starring Winfried Glatzeder and Angelica Domröse as Paul and Paula. moreSoundtrack:
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As an American who lived in former East Germany for a time, I was impressed by the way this film portrayed the ambivalence many Ossis felt about the fall of the Wall. The characters were more nuanced and their treatment more sensitive than that seen in the more popular Goodbye Lenin which, while a good movie, is more about the character's relationship with his mother than it is an accurate portrayal of life in East Germany. Goodbye Lenin seems to reduce the Ossi existence to communist commodification -- to be an Ossi is about what kind of pickles you eat -- whereas Sonnenallee allows its characters to be much more than consumers. In interviews with the makers of Goodbye Lenin, they have mentioned that much of their inspiration for their treatment of East Germans came from TV shows on East Germans.... Sonnenallee presents the eastern life without the extra refraction of the television screen.