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Seven Freckles

A film still: Seven Freckles
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Sat, 02/01/2025 -
Fri, 02/28/2025

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Language: German with English subtitles
Price: Free
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Curated to counter the overwhelming wars, crises, and polarization that characterize our everyday lives, “Alles Liebe” is a new yearlong Goethe on Demand series that showcases the most beautiful feeling in the world in its many facets—romantic love stories, unconventional relationships, and stories of care, friendship, and loyalty.

 

Childhood friends Karoline and Robby reconnect at a GDR summer camp. Though their attraction is immediate, they are kept apart by the camp’s rigorous daily schedule, jealousy from their fellow campers, and the head counselor’s moralizing. A camp production of Romeo and Juliet gives them a chance to explore their romantic connection. Herrmann Zschoche’s poetic and sensitive summer camp story about first love and sexual awakening struck a chord with East German teenagers, becoming a box office success.

“The film offers a more than interesting portrait of a society not much different from our own in the West.” (Variety)

Sieben Sommersprossen
Dir. Herrmann Zschoche
East Germany, 1978
76 min.
With Kareen Schröter, Harald Rathmann, Christa Löser, Evelyn Opoczynski, Jan Bereska