Solo Sunny
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Starring | Renate Krößner |
Cinematography | Eberhard Geick |
Edited by | Evelyn Carow |
Music by | Günther Fischer |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
Country | East Germany |
Language | German |
Solo Sunny is a 1980 East German
Plot
Ingrid "Sunny" Sommer is a singer for an East German band, called the Tornadoes, whose audience is usually senior citizens. For Sunny, performing as a solo pop singer is her dream but singing the same song over and over to a small crowd has not gotten her there yet. When the saxophone player of the band is injured, the musician and philosopher Ralph steps in to substitute for him. Sunny falls for Ralph's saxophone skills, and soon they become lovers. Sunny asks Ralph to write her a song, and eventually he agrees. After walking off the stage before a performance, Sunny is soon replaced in the band by a new girl. Sunny turns to Ralph for comfort and finds him cheating on her. Finally Sunny has a chance to sing solo on stage with the song Ralph wrote for her, but she does not feel the love that she desires from the audience and gives up. After mixing sleeping pills and alcohol Sunny ends up in a hospital where she stays for rehabilitation. Once Sunny gets back on her feet she goes back to her old factory job, but she quits shortly after starting. The film ends with Sunny being accepted as a singer for another band with a sound different from the Tornadoes.
Cast
- Renate Krößner as Sunny
- Alexander Lang as Ralph
- Dieter Montag as Harry
- Heide Kipp as Christine
- Klaus Brasch as Norbert
- Hansjürgen Hürrig as Hubert
- Harald Warmbrunnas Benno
- Olaf Mierau as Udo
- Ursula Braun as Frau Pfeiffer
- Regine Doreen as Monika
- Klaus Händel as Bernd
- Rolf Pfannenstein as Ernesto
- Bernd Stegemann as Detlev
- Fred Düren as Doktor
- Ulrich Anschütz as Grafiker
Production
Wolfgang Kohlhaase, East Germany's most important screenwriter, wrote the screenplay for Solo Sunny and was made co-director of the film.[3]> The inspiration for this film was a German singer named Sanije Torka who was born of eastern European immigrant parents.[4] Jutta Voigt, a German journalist who interviewed Torka and had connections to Kohlhaase, was a consultant for the film.[4] The information used for the film drew on an interview Voigt had done with the singer in 1976 that was never published because her lifestyle did not fit East German socialist views.[4]
Reception
Although Solo Sunny was a film in which the East German socialist ideals were sometimes blatantly disregarded, it was not banned or censored by
Awards
Within the year that the film was released it had won a total of 13 awards and one nomination from various film festivals.
See also
References
- YouTube
- ^ "Berlinale 1980: Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 22 August 2010.
- ^ )
- ^ ISBN 978-1-137-32231-9.
- ^ a b c d "Solo Sunny: Awards". IMDb. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
External links
- Solo Sunny at IMDb