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Sonnenallee

1999 · 101 min

A bittersweet, gently absurd coming-of-age comedy that makes you smile at everyday life under surveillance and feel the quiet weight of borders.

Directed by: Leander Haußmann
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Alexander Scheer, Alexander Beyer, Katharina Thalbach

Overview: 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.

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Directed by: Leander Haußmann
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Alexander Scheer, Alexander Beyer, Katharina Thalbach

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Tone: whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: coming-of-age
identity
family
friendship
freedom
Places: big city
home
Era: period
Audience: teen
Form: ensemble
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	2
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Humour	7
Realism	7
Romance	4
Tension	3
Darkness	3
Complexity	4
Emotional weight	5

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Genres: comedy
Directed by: Leander Haußmann
Written by: Thomas Brussig, Detlev Buck, Leander Haußmann
Starring: Alexander Scheer, Alexander Beyer, Katharina Thalbach, Teresa Weißbach, Detlev Buck, Henry Hübchen, Ignaz Kirchner, Robert Stadlober
Music: Stephen Keusch, Paul Lemp
Runtime: 101 min
Country: Germany
Languages: German

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