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7:30 PM
SOLO SUNNY in 4K
Film|Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
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TED MANN Theater, Los Angeles, CA
- Language German with English Subtitles
- Price $5 - $10
Join us and our partners from the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on Friday, December 12th at the Ted Mann Theater for North American restoration premiere of Konrad Wolf's SOLO SUNNY. This screening is presented as part of the series Present Past 2025: A Celebration of Film Preservation
SOLO SUNNY
1980 | East Germany | Color | German with English subtitles | Not Rated | 4K DCP | 105 min
WRITER-DIRECTOR Konrad Wolf, SCREENPLAY Wolfgang Kohlhaase, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Eberhard Geick, WITH Renate Krößner, Alexander Lang, Heide Kipp, Dieter Montag.
Director Konrad Wolf’s final film is a bittersweet tale about the painful allure of fame. As the confident front woman in a crumby dancehall act, charismatic Sunny—in an award-winning performance by the electric Renate Krößner—yearns to go solo but worries that time is against her. Shot in East Berlin’s countercultural center, Prenzlauer Berg, and rural East Germany, the film lays bare resonant truths about the realities of artmaking under political repression. The result was widespread acclaim for the film and the biggest commercial success of Wolf’s long career. Fans of Times Square (1980) and Ladies and Gentlemen the Fabulous Stains (1982) will delight in this girl-in-a-band movie that is cut from a similar cloth.
Solo Sunny was scanned in 4K from the original 35mm film negative and, in part, from an internegative and digitally restored. The source material for the sound editing was a 17.5mm magnetic tape. The restoration was carried out by Eurotape, Berlin, in 2024/25. Eberhard Geick, the original director of photography of the film, closely supervised the color correction and was available to answer all questions related to the film’s production. Solo Sunny digitalization and restoration © 2025, Eurotape in collaboration with the DEFA Foundation, Berlin.
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
Community partnership support provided by Goethe-Institut LA.
SOLO SUNNY
1980 | East Germany | Color | German with English subtitles | Not Rated | 4K DCP | 105 min
WRITER-DIRECTOR Konrad Wolf, SCREENPLAY Wolfgang Kohlhaase, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Eberhard Geick, WITH Renate Krößner, Alexander Lang, Heide Kipp, Dieter Montag.
Director Konrad Wolf’s final film is a bittersweet tale about the painful allure of fame. As the confident front woman in a crumby dancehall act, charismatic Sunny—in an award-winning performance by the electric Renate Krößner—yearns to go solo but worries that time is against her. Shot in East Berlin’s countercultural center, Prenzlauer Berg, and rural East Germany, the film lays bare resonant truths about the realities of artmaking under political repression. The result was widespread acclaim for the film and the biggest commercial success of Wolf’s long career. Fans of Times Square (1980) and Ladies and Gentlemen the Fabulous Stains (1982) will delight in this girl-in-a-band movie that is cut from a similar cloth.
Solo Sunny was scanned in 4K from the original 35mm film negative and, in part, from an internegative and digitally restored. The source material for the sound editing was a 17.5mm magnetic tape. The restoration was carried out by Eurotape, Berlin, in 2024/25. Eberhard Geick, the original director of photography of the film, closely supervised the color correction and was available to answer all questions related to the film’s production. Solo Sunny digitalization and restoration © 2025, Eurotape in collaboration with the DEFA Foundation, Berlin.
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
Community partnership support provided by Goethe-Institut LA.
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Location
TED MANN Theater
6067 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036
USA
6067 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036
USA