Sonnenallee

Sonnenallee (Sun Avenue or Sun Alley) is a 1999 German comedy film about life in East Berlin in the early 1970s. The movie was directed by Leander Haußmann. The film was released shortly before the corresponding novel, Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee (At the Shorter End of 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. Both the movie and the book emphasize the importance of pop-art and in particular, pop music, for the youth of East Berlin. The Sonnenallee is an actual street in Berlin that was intersected by the border between East and West during the time of the Berlin Wall, although it bears little resemblance to the film set. Sonnenallee was broadcast in the Czech Republic under the title Eastie Boys.

==Cast== Alexander Scheer as Michael "Micha" Ehrenreich Alexander Beyer as Mario Naujoks Robert Stadlober as Wuschel David Mueller as Brötchen Teresa Weißbach as Miriam Sommer Katharina Thalbach as Doris Ehrenreich Henry Hübchen as Hotte Ehrenreich Elena Meißner as Sabrina Detlev Buck as Officer Horkefeld Winfried Glatzeder makes a brief cameo appearance, reprising his role as Paul from the East German film The Legend of Paul and Paula.