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 ...
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| Alexander Scheer | ... | Michael 'Micha' Ehrenreich | |
| Alexander Beyer | ... | Mario | |
| Robert Stadlober | ... | Wuschel | |
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Teresa Weißbach | ... | Miriam Sommer |
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Detlev Buck | ... | ABV |
| Katharina Thalbach | ... | Mutter Ehrenreich | |
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Henry Hübchen | ... | Vater Ehrenreich |
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Ignaz Kirchner | ... | Onkel Heinz |
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Annika Kuhl | ... | Sabine Ehrenreich |
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Elena Meißner | ... | Sabrina |
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Horst Lebinsky | ... | Grenzer |
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Martin Moeller | ... | Kosscke |
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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 antics of these kids, their families, of the "West German" friends and relatives who come to visit, and of the East German border guards, all serve to illustrate the absurdity of everyday life on the Sonnenallee, and therefore throughout the former East Germany. Written by GMeleJr
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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. See more »Alternate Versions
German TV version runs ca. 10 minutes longer than the theatrical/home video version. See more »Soundtracks
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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.