FREE | Wed, Mar 20th at 7:00 pm | Goethe Pop Up brings German Cinema to Kansas City, MO with the Pop Up Film Haus events. This week catch “Solo Sunny” as part of their “What’s left? – Films from former East Germany” film series.
As part of the 2018-2019 initiative Year of German-American Friendship, encompassed by the motto “Wunderbar Together”, Goethe Pop Up Kansas City invites everyone to its Pop Up Film Haus to discover German cinema through a curated selection of films. Each film will be shown in German with English subtitles.
Together with our partner Stray Cat Film Center, we invite you to What’s left? Films from former East Germany, a series of film screenings curated by Dr. Larson Powell, Professor of Film Studies at UMKC. Dr. Powell will lead a discussion after each screening about the film’s content and contexts, its relation to film history, and its artistic form and style.
This week’s screening at Stray Cat Film Center:
Solo Sunny (1980)
Director: Konrad Wolf, Wolfgang Kohlhaase
Cast: Renate Krößner, Alexander Lang, Dieter Montag
The GDR, at the end of the 70s: Ingrid Sommer, a woman working in a factory, tries to launch a singing career under the name Sunny. The young woman travels around with the band Tornados and plays some small gigs in cultural centers around the province. Her life is anything but “sunny” though, even when her love for the philosopher Ralph does promise some light and warmth at times. A story balancing between sadness and hope, and, retrospectively, a wonderfully precise and authentic film about life in the GDR.
Photo (detail): © PROGRESS Film-Verleih/ Foto Dieter Lück
Free Admission
2019/03/20 - 2019/03/20
Stray Cat Film Center
1662 Broadway, Kansas City, MO 64108