Sommer vorm Balkon

Name: Sommer vorm Balkon
Genre: Drama
Released: 2006-01-05
Duration: 1 h 47 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Inka Friedrich, Nadja Uhl, Andreas Schmidt

20052005
1h 47m

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7.0/10

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A tragicomic movie which focuses on two women and their daily struggle for survival during a summer in Berlin. Katrin, a jobless single mom, and Nike, a nurse, live in the same house and are... Read allA tragicomic movie which focuses on two women and their daily struggle for survival during a summer in Berlin. Katrin, a jobless single mom, and Nike, a nurse, live in the same house and are best friends. Although always dating the wrong men and still pursuing for happiness, they... Read allA tragicomic movie which focuses on two women and their daily struggle for survival during a summer in Berlin. Katrin, a jobless single mom, and Nike, a nurse, live in the same house and are best friends. Although always dating the wrong men and still pursuing for happiness, they don't lose their humor and spend many nights together on Nike's balcony, drinking and cha... Read all

IMDb RATING

7.0/10

2.9K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

49,569

2,320

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- 7 wins & 9 nominations

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Trivia
In the scene in which Nike and Ronald take Max to the bar the man sitting in front of the window is Axel Prahl, one of director Andreas Dresen's favorite actors. Prahl has been in all of Dresen's non-documentary films from Nachtgestalten (1999) to Sommer vorm Balkon (2005).

Connections
Featured in Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte (2008)

Soundtracks
Guten Morgen Sonnenschein
Performed by Nana Mouskouri

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6/10

"Summer in Berlin" and so it is

Saw this one when it played at the Chicago festival in October. Two gals share a friendship over a summer. And over a summer they change and the friendship changes. Things occasionally stray into melodramatic territory, but fine performances all around, especially by the two female leads, make for a pleasantly watchable movie. The day to day struggles of the leads provide not-so-subtle political subtext about tough times in post-unification Germany.

Andreas Schmidt's subdued portrayal of an underemployed trucker provides a contrast to his more exuberant performance in a similarly blue-collar role in "Guys and Balls."

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