It'll be OK | Alles Wird Gut

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Discussion with Filmmaker Bernd Sahling and drinks reception in the Wende Museum sculpture garden following the screening.

Presented in cooperation with the Wende Musem and the Thomas Mann House.

IT'LL BE OK | ALLES WIRD GUT

Writer-Director Bernd Sahling

Dramaturg Anne Nestler

Cinematography Olaf Skrzipczyk, Le Dang Quan

Editor Carola Schäfer

Sound Thomas Thiele

Mentors Helmut Dziuba, Peter Rabenalt, Holger Lochau

Producer Peter Hartwig

Production Company EIKON Munich, Filmhochschule Munich, Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen "Konrad Wolf"

Remastering/Stereo Soundtrack Schwander-Sounddesign, FXtogo, Studio Mitte, Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF.

Bernd Sahling’s long-term documentary captures nearly four years in the life of Michael, aka Stummel, a young punker living in East Berlin in the late 1980s. A punk since he was 13, Stummel uses aggression, provocation, drugs, and punk music to escape from his troubled childhood and the rigidity of GDR life. As a teenager, he fathers a child, and although his girlfriend remains in the GDR, Stummel applies to leave the country to follow his mother to West Germany. In 1988, while still a film student at the HFF “Konrad Wolf,” Sahling released his portrait of Stummel in the short documentary LIVING MY WAY | ABER WENN MAN SO LEBEN WILL WIE ICH, the first film to capture the punk scene in the GDR. Less than a year later, following the fall of the Berlin Wall, Sahling interviews Stummel again, capturing his experiences as an outsider caught between two opposing political systems at the tail end of the Cold War. The resulting film, IT’LL BE OK|ALLES WIRD GUT, premiered in 1990 at the Mannheim International FF. In 2022, the film was remastered in HD with a stereo soundtrack.