A group of kids grow up on the short, wrong (east) side of the Sonnenallee in Berlin, right next to one of the few border crossings between East and West reserved for German citizens. The antics of these kids, their families, of the "West German" friends and relatives who come to visit, and of the East German border guards, all serve to illustrate the absurdity of everyday life on the Sonnenallee, and therefore throughout the former East Germany.

Randy Daytona was a child ping pong prodigy who lost his chance at Olympic gold when his father is m...

A young man from an early age falls in love with a girl whose family is not in good standing with th...

Somewhere in the GDR, in 1988: young soldier Henrik Heidler starts his service in the National Peopl...

When stubborn, spotty Kevin and his equally hopeless best friend Perry go on holiday to the party is...

The life and career of shock-jock superstar Howard Stern is recounted from his humble beginnings to ...

Flo und sein Kumpel Hotte arbeiten in der mies gehenden Neuköllner Videothek Video König. Kein Wunde...

Long-haul driver Hannes (Manfred Krug) picks up a young hitchhiker, Herb (Jaecki Schwarz), who had a...

Brennan Huff and Dale Doback might be grown men. But that doesn't stop them from living at home and ...

Ina, just released from prison, returns to the place of her childhood in search of life and meets th...

A popular high school athlete and an academically gifted girl get roles in the school musical and de...

Two twin brothers are living on a different sides of Berlin Wall after being separated after birth.

A coming-of-age story set in Germany in the 1960s. Siggi becomes involved in a love triangle when he...

Wayne Szalinski is at it again. But instead of shrinking things, he tries to make a machine that can...

Elated by the Italian attitude to life, family Struutz returns to Bitterfeld and experiences a shock...

In 1965, a young woman with dreams of becoming a writer has a son at the age of 15 and struggles to ...

The story of a group of contemporary young people, growing up in well-to-do small-town

Desperate to prove to his peers that he’s more than a chubby kid that never wins at anything, little...

Georgia Nicolson is fourteen, lives with nosey parents who don't understand her, an annoying three y...

A summer trip to Berlin offers a fleeting glimpse into the lives of the country's youth in this vibr...

Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an al...