Sonnenallee

Sonnenallee
Directed by	Leander Haußmann
Written by	Thomas Brussig Detlev Buck Leander Haußmann
Produced by	Claus Boje Detlev Buck
Starring	Alexander Scheer Alexander Beyer Robert Stadlober
Cinematography	Peter Krause
Edited by	Sandy Saffeels
Production companies	Boje Buck Produktion Ö-Film Sat.1
Distributed by	Delphi Filmverleih
Release date	7 October 1999 (1999-10-07)
Running time	101 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

Sonnenallee (Sun Avenue or Sun Alley^[1]) 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 (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.^[2]