“Regarded as the crowning achievement of the film career of the late Konrad Wolf, Solo Sunny can be credited as having launched the renaissance of GDR filmmaking when it appeared in 1979. The story is simple in structure but provocative in tone and intimation. With lowered expectations life would be easier for Sunny, an orphaned, fiercely independent 25-year-old aspiring pop singer, a female rebel without a cause. On the road with her band and in a male-dominated world, she is much pursued but generally unyielding, having tempestuous affairs but on her own terms. But what seems so telling about the film, besides its steamy depiction of East German low life, is the suggestion that socialist culture must find a better way to accommodate its more marginal characters: disenfranchized youth, the lumpen class and single and unwed mothers. Renate Krossner's performance as Sunny won her the Best Actress Award at the 1980 Berlin Film Festival.” Tony Safford, AFI