Sonnenwende

Originaltitel: Summer Solstice

Fernsehfilm
1981
1 Std. 15 Min.

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Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuFifty years after their wedding, a couple celebrating their golden anniversary reminisce about when they first met. Through flashbacks, we see them fall in love.Fifty years after their wedding, a couple celebrating their golden anniversary reminisce about when they first met. Through flashbacks, we see them fall in love.Fifty years after their wedding, a couple celebrating their golden anniversary reminisce about when they first met. Through flashbacks, we see them fall in love.

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7,0/10

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CaptPeacock

Very Lucky To Have Recorded This!

This one of my favorite Henry Fonda movies. Myrna Loy is excellent in this one. I think this is the only time these two great stars worked together.

If this is so, it's a shame. They were very good in this. I got the feeling while watching that there wasn't much acting here. Usually, this is bad. But, not here. This was a very natural performance.

I was lucky enough to catch in on HBO. And very lucky to have recorded it on DVD!

I don't think this will ever see release on DVD. Which is a shame. This is some of the best work either Myrna Loy or Henry Fonda ever did. I'm surprise it was on HBO at all. I suspect it was used as filler.

But, what a great way to spend an hour!

8JLRFilmReviews

Fonda and Loy at Cape Cod

Henry Fonda and Myrna Loy star in this made for TV short film, whose history of how it came about you can read on other reviews. I did read them, which I usually don't. I don't have much to add, except for a few things. Fonda and Loy play a married couple who make a day trip to the beach on Cape Cod and look back on their life together.

I went into this not knowing what to expect, but I had hoped on 50 minutes of Fonda and Loy, like in a one-act play. But instead I get Stephen Collins and Lindsay Crouse as them in flashbacks. I might appreciate it more the second time around now that I know what to expect, but the presence of such great actors as Henry Fonda and Myrna Loy in their last years of their lives seems to command the respect and attention of the viewer even from the beginning, Miss Loy being ever the graceful lady and Fonda seeming to have been through it all. (He died soon after this, but not before winning an Oscar for his last theatrical movie, On Golden Pond, accepted on his behalf by his daughter Jane Fonda.)

If you get the chance to see Summer Solstice, it's a chance to see true legends working together for the first time. It's an experience you're not likely to forget.

Grifon

Must Find A Copy!

I am so happy to hear all of your wonderful comments! I MUST FIND A COPY OF SUMMER SOLSTICE! My father was the stylist for this movie and many others. He is almost 80 yrs old now and recently retired from hair styling. His career was full of movie stars, local Boston celebrities, presidents wives and rock stars. I am going through boxes full of old scripts, photos he took on movie sets, newspaper clippings etc and I really want to put a scrapbook together to be passed on to the next generations. To complete that, I am buying DVDs of the movies and TV shows he worked on. Does anyone know how I can obtain a copy of Summer Solstice? If you do, I have a funny story about Henry Fonda and my dad to tell!

dpuopolo

This was a made for TV movie..

This was a made for TV movie produced by WCVB-TV, Boston, MA. The movie was the end result of a viewer's script that won a script contest conducted by WCVB. It was shot on Cape Cod.

They got Henry Fonda because he had just finished shooting: "On Golden Pond" in New Hampshire. He literally was already in the area.

Ironically, this wound up being his last film (and Myrna Loy's too).

Some dismiss it as a "TV Movie". I don't! I believe that it is as good as any theatrical release. You must remember that since WCVB produced it, it was going to air on their station first.

a_rarden

I love this movie

I was house sitting for my aunt and uncle when I saw this movie on one of those HBO stations and I fell in love with it. I had missed the title and couldn't wait to get home to the internet and order it. But according to IMDb.com it's not for sale on DVD or tape. I'm very disappointed because I loved this movie so much.

Henry Fonda was one of the very best actors of his time and was until the very end...this movie shows it. The quality of the movie was excellent; the story was great, the actors chosen for their roles were fantastic, and the quality of the picture reminds me so much one of my other Henry Fonda favorites, On Golden Pond.

I was also disappointed to visit this webpage and only find one comment; It's a horrible thought to think that not many have seen this movie. It's a great movie that should be seen by everyone, and I truly hope that it will soon be released on tape or DVD so that the children and other generations of the future can enjoy it as much as I have.

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Henry Fonda's last role - he filmed this after Am goldenen See (1981).

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Joshua: [to Margaret] We can't be here.
Margaret: Must be somewhere else instead!
Ranger: Ah, didn't you see me wave?
Margaret: We waved back.
Ranger: Well, didn't you see the sign?
Joshua: What sign?
Ranger: Erosion control.
Joshua: You mean, we're eroding so we can't be here?
Margaret: Oh, Dear, don't tease him, he thinks you mean it.
Joshua: I do mean it.
Margaret: You look dazzling in that uniform! Why don't you join us in some wine?
Ranger: You're not allowed to drink alcohol here either.
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Joshua: Walking on them?
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Joshua: Good!
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Ranger: Thank you.
[he gets up to leave]
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[to Margaret]
Joshua: Power hungry!
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Joshua: What do you mean?
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Margaret: Oh!