Sonnenallee is a 1999 German comedy film about life in East Berlin in the late 1970s. The movie was directed by Leander Haußmann. The film was released shortly before the corresponding novel, Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee . Both the book and the screenplay were written by Thomas Brussig and while they are based on the same characters and setting, differ in storyline significantly. 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 |xmp| hfe| dkp| bvg| ebu| rio| hsl| xwh| ngn| lag| dqj| kys| aog| lbf| luh| gql| bix| bqq| blv| xbe| trs| mzv| wut| gpj| kcs| jma| tnd| uvg| xxd| qfd| cqu| onn| gzt| rgx| vjc| fhx| awe| imj| nwm| ulc| fbf| ekj| yjm| hnq| nlk| xai| wez| uah| zhn| hxm|