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Sun Seekers is a film of genre Drama directed by Konrad Wolf with Günther Simon

Sun Seekers (1972)

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Length 1h54
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Genres Drama
Rating63% 3.1835953.1835953.1835953.1835953.183595

Sun Seekers (German: Sonnensucher) is an East German film, directed by Konrad Wolf during 1958. It was banned and subsequently released only in 1972.

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1950. After being arrested in a police raid, the two young prostitutes Lotte and Emmi are sent to the mines in Wismut. There, Germans and Soviets work together to extract Uranium for the use of the USSR. Two men fall in love with Lotte: the director Beier, a former SS man who tries to compensate for his past with hard work, and the Soviet engineer Sergei, whose wife was murdered by the Germans in the war. In the meantime, Jupp König, a veteran communist whom Emmi once harbored from the Gestapo, leads the miners as they attempt to replace their harsh and incompetent party boss, Weihrauch. Eventually, König is given Weihrauch's office. Lotte marries Beier, although she later realizes that she loves Sergei. When her husband is badly injured in an accident, he confides to the Soviet engineer that soldiers from his battalion murdered the latter's wife; Sergei replies that he knew it all along. Lotte and her baby son leave the mines and return to Berlin.

Actors

Günther Simon

(Franz Beier)
Erwin Geschonneck

(Jupp König)
Vladimir Yemelyanov

(Oberst Fedossjew)
Manja Behrens

(Emmi Jahnke)
Viktor Avdyushko

(Sergei Melnikow)
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