Summer Solstice

Oct 22, 2015

1h 40m

★ 5.9

Overview

Romek is a Polish railway worker and Guido is a German soldier. They are both 17, in love with jazz and the same pretty girl. But it's 1943 somewhere in German-occupied Poland, and their lives are bound to change soon.

Genres

Romance

Drama

War

Production Companies

Prasa i Film

Sunday Filmproduktion

Synchron- und Tonstudio Leipzig

Telewizja Polska

Odra-Film

Mafilm

Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych

Orka

RBB

Summer Solstice Trailers

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Cast

Guido

Jonas Nay

Oberleutnant

Steffen Scheumann

Odi

Gerdy Zint

Romek

Filip Piotrowicz

Franka

Urszula Bogucka

Leon

Bartłomiej Topa

Bunia

Maria Semotiuk

Hauptwachtmeister

André Hennicke

Matka Romka

Agnieszka Krukówna

Karwan

Krzysztof Czeczot

Karpiuk

Juliusz Krzysztof Warunek

soviet officer

Konstantin Zadvorny

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