Summer Solstice

Two 17-year-olds, one Polish and one German, meet somewhere in occupied eastern Poland in 1943. The war seems far away, and both the Polish stoker and the German soldier have their eyes on the pretty Franka. This German-Polish co-production is about life behind the fronts, about people's longing for normality, also about the danger that is always lurking...

Keywords

  • Arthouse
  • Love
  • world war II
  • Coming of Age
  • eastern europe
  • friendship
  • history
  • jazz
  • relationship
  • teen
  • war

Actors

  • Jonas Nay
  • Filip Piotrowicz
  • Gerdy Zint
  • Steffen Scheumann
  • André Hennicke
  • Urszula Bogucka
  • Maria Semotiuk

Director

  • Michal Rogalski

Drama, Independent

1h 36min

12 FSK

DE

Germany
Poland
2015
The coming-of-age drama by Michal Rogalski tells how everyday life in the WW2 grey zone between normality and terror looked like...

The coming-of-age drama by Michal Rogalski tells how everyday life in the WW2 grey zone between normality and terror looked like...


Two 17-year-olds, one Polish and one German, meet somewhere in occupied eastern Poland in 1943. The war seems far away, and both the Polish stoker and the German soldier have their eyes on the pretty Franka.


This German-Polish co-production is about life behind the fronts, about people's longing for normality, also about the danger that is always lurking...

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Cast & Crew