It'll Be Ok (Alles wird gut)

Film Screening Thursday, Oct 15th, 7:00 PM @ Aurora Chapel (800 Aurora St, Houston, TX 77009). Doors open at 6:45 pm. Free admission with RSVP.​​​​​​

Join us for Q&A with filmmaker Bernd Sahling and a reception after the screening!

About the Film

Bernd Sahling’s long-term documentary captures nearly four years in the life of Michael, aka Stummel, a young punker living in East Berlin in the late 1980s. A punk since he was 13, Stummel uses aggression, provocation, drugs, and punk music to escape from his troubled childhood and the rigidity of GDR life. As a teenager, he fathers a child, and although his girlfriend remains in the GDR, Stummel applies to leave the country to follow his mother to West Germany. In 1988, while still a film student at the Film University Babelsberg “Konrad Wolf,” Sahling released his portrait of Stummel in the short documentary LIVING MY WAY (ABER WENN MAN SO LEBEN WILL WIE ICH), the first film to capture the punk scene in the GDR. Less than a year later, following the fall of the Berlin Wall, Sahling interviews Stummel again, capturing his experiences as an outsider caught between two opposing political systems at the tail end of the Cold War. The resulting film, IT’LL BE OK (ALLES WIRD GUT), premiered in 1990 at the Mannheim International Film Festival. In 2022, the film was remastered in HD with a stereo soundtrack.  

IT'LL BE OK | ALLES WIRD GUT
Germany (1987-1990), 76 min, German/English with English Subtitles
Writer-Director: Bernd Sahling
Dramaturg: Anne Nestler
Cinematography: Olaf Skrzipczyk, Le Dang Quan
Editor: Carola Schäfer
Sound: Thomas Thiele
Mentors: Helmut Dziuba, Peter Rabenalt, Holger Lochau
Producer: Peter Hartwig
Production Company: EIKON Munich, Filmhochschule Munich, Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen "Konrad Wolf"
Remastering/Stereo Soundtrack Schwander-Sounddesign, FXtogo, Studio Mitte, Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF

This screening is part of the Goethe-Institut's international project Alle Gegen Alles. Punk@50, celebrating the 50th anniversary of punk