Friday, December 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Academy Museum, Los Angeles
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.