film.dialoge: SOMMER VORM BALKON (SUMMER IN BERLIN)

During the fifth film dialogs of the Deutsche Kinemathek, Andreas Dresen's SOMMER VORM BALKON (Summer in Berlin, D 2005) will be screened. Afterwards, the director will meet his scriptwriter Wolfgang Kohlhaase. Andreas Dresen, born in the GDR, was trained at the DEFA. The film Nachtgestalten (Night Shapes, D 1999) marked his breakthrough to the major league of German film directing. Wolfgang Kohlhaase's oeuvre comprises such outstanding films as Solo Sunny (Konrad Wolf, GDR 1980) and Volker Schlöndorff's Die Stille nach dem Schuss (Legend of Rita, D 2000). In SOMMER VORM BALKON, Dresen and Kohlhaase tell the story of two young women in present-day Prenzlauer Berg in Berlin. Here, too, Dresen distinguishes himself as a keen observer of German everyday life, and for Kohlhaase, the film marks the continuation of his stock-taking of the city district that began with Berlin – Ecke Schönhauser (Gerhard Klein, GDR 1957). (Nils Warnecke) (June 17)