Solo Sunny

Society/Music, GDR 1980

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Sunny is a pop singer from Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg, who tours villages and small towns with a band. She longs for happiness and recognition as a celebrity. The taxi driver Harry adores her, but his maxim of life, the "quick money", is not hers. She falls in love with the philosopher Ralph, but is betrayed by him. During the tours she has to constantly defend herself against the persecutions of the musician Norbert. After a physical altercation with him and an argument with the disgustingly stupid emcee Benno Bohne, who insults her on stage, she is thrown out of the band...
101 min
HD
FSK 12
Audio language:
German

Awards

Chicago Film Festival 1980 Golden Plaque, 1st prize for screenplay
Berlinale 1980 Best Actress FIPRESCI Critics Award
Critics poll GDR Best DEFA Contemporary Film 1980

More information

Editor:

Evelyn Carow

Cast:

Renate Krößner (Sunny)

Alexander Lang (Ralph)

Dieter Montag (Harry)

Heide Kipp (Christine)

Klaus Brasch (Norbert)

Hansjürgen Hürrig (Hubert)

Olaf Mierau (Udo)

Harald Warmbrunn (Benno)

Ursula Braun (Frau Pfeiffer)

Original title:

Solo Sunny

Original language:

German

Format:

16:9 HD, Color

Age rating:

FSK 12

Audio language:

German