Sonja

Name: Sonja
Genre: Drama
Released: 2006-11-23
Duration: 1 h 12 min
Rating: 5.8
Cast: Sabrina Kruschwitz, Julia Kaufmann, Nadja Engel

20062006
1h 12m

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5.8/10

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A teenage girl learns some valuable lessons about love and self-acceptance in this coming-of-age drama from filmmaker Kirsi Liimatainen. Sonja (Sabrina Kruschwitz) has just turned sixteen, a... Read allA teenage girl learns some valuable lessons about love and self-acceptance in this coming-of-age drama from filmmaker Kirsi Liimatainen. Sonja (Sabrina Kruschwitz) has just turned sixteen, and is going through a summer where nothing seems to feel right anymore. Sonja can't get al... Read allA teenage girl learns some valuable lessons about love and self-acceptance in this coming-of-age drama from filmmaker Kirsi Liimatainen. Sonja (Sabrina Kruschwitz) has just turned sixteen, and is going through a summer where nothing seems to feel right anymore. Sonja can't get along with her mother (Nadja Engel), their apartment feels uncomfortably small, a recent spu... Read all

IMDb RATING

5.8/10

321

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

237,450

32,423

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Sabrina Kruschwitz and Christian Kirste in Sonja (2006)

Julia Kaufmann and Sabrina Kruschwitz in Sonja (2006)

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6/10

lesbian coming out story

Teenager Sonja (Sabrina Kruschwitz) is struggling with her feelings with her best friend Julia (Julia Kaufmann). She is unsure about her boyfriend and her sexual attraction to men in general. She tries to tell Julia but can't quite say it out loud. Julia vows to stay a virgin until marriage. Her mother confronts her for being a lesbian.

This is a short 72 minutes movie and even then, the movie is pretty thin. It really needs for Sonja to give voice to her sexuality. That's where all the drama resides but the movie insists on hesitating. It's a long tease that loses some of the tension. There are some interesting stuff and it's touching when the girls finally have their moment. Kruschwitz's performance is great but the long tease takes a toll.

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