Sonnenallee (1999)

Sonnenallee ( Sun Avenue or  Sun Alley[1] ) is a  1999  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.