Girls in
Sonnenallee (1999)

Filmmaker Leander Haußmann hammers home the absurdity of arbitrarily dividing Germany between East and West in Sonnenallee (1999), an adaptation of a popular novel by Thomas Brussig. Made more than a decade after the demolition of the Berlin Wall, the film follows the trials and travails of a group of teens unfortunate enough to grow up on the wrong (i.e., east) side of … Become a Mr Skin Member and get the full review