Opening Night

SUMMER IN BERLIN

SOMMER VORM BALKON

Directed by Andreas Dresen

THURSDAY JANUARY 11 8PM CASTRO
6:30PM - 8PM OPENING NIGHT PARTY CASTRO

SUMMER IN BERLIN is a window into the lives and loves of two thirty-something best friends who are so close, they practically share the same balcony in Berlin’s quickly gentrifying Prenzlauer Berg district. Katrin, a single mom, needs to find work and is running the interviewing gauntlet while her young teen son presents the usual parenting challenges. Nike, a caretaker, makes her daily rounds visiting elderly dear, yet quirky clients. When a near accident introduces Ronald, an oddly appealing truck driver, into the picture, Nike’s summer nights are no longer free for all-night chats on the balcony with Katrin. And then Ronald moves in. And relationship issues emerge. A “masterpiece of daily life,” this film offers a light hearted look at the trials and triumphs of two friends who are looking for warmth and on their search, we are treated to a good dose of poignant humor. “Such is life,” as Katrin would say.

IN PERSON Andreas Dresen

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Country
Germany
Year
2005
Run Time
105 min, color
German with English subtitles
Cast
Inka Friedrich, Nadja Uhl,
Andreas Schmidt, Stefanie Schönfeld, Vincent Redetzki,
Christel Peters, Kurt Radeke
Camera
Andreas Höfer
Screenwriter
Wolfgang Kohlhaase
Printsource
D Street Releasing LLC
Awards
Bavarian Film Awards 2006: Best Direction.
Chicago International Film Festival 2006:
Silver Hugo
Best Actress.
Ernst Lubitsch Award 2006.
San Sebastian International Film Festival 2006: Best Screenplay.

Email
d.davis@dstreetmediagroup.com
Director

Andreas Dresen
was born in 1963 in Gera. He was a sound engineer for Schwerin’s theater and DEFA film studios before studying at the Film Academy Konrad Wolff in Potsdam-Babelsberg. His works include STILLES LAND (1992), his first box office success NACHTGESTALTEN (1999), and HALBE TREPPE and WILLENBOCK (2005).