Character Relationship Map: Red Sun

Characters

• Peggy (played by Uschi Obermaier) — protagonist

  Peggy is a central member of the unstable household shared with Isolde, Sylvie, and Christine. She is repeatedly called upon to manage crises, especially Isolde’s emotional outbursts, while also quest...

• Thomas (played by Marquard Bohm) — supporting

  Thomas is an aimless young man who has been expelled and says he wants to change his life. After meeting Howard, he is drawn into Peggy’s household and spends time with the women, discussing escape fr...

• Sylvie (played by Sylvia Kekulé) — supporting

  Sylvie is one of the women living with Peggy, Isolde, and Christine in unstable, improvised conditions outside ordinary society. She belongs to the household shaped by sleeping, drinking, arguments, a...

• Christine (played by Diana Körner) — supporting

  Christine is part of the group living with Peggy, Isolde, and Sylvie in improvised and unstable conditions. She shares their pattern of sleeping, drinking, arguing, and maintaining casual relationship...

• Lohmann (played by Henry van Lyck) — supporting

  Lohmann is a man who pursues Isolde through the city and drives a new Mustang. At the Isar, he follows her onto a large stone, slips into the river, and disappears after Isolde helps him fall, knowing...

• Isolde (played by Gaby Go) — supporting

  Isolde is an emotionally volatile member of Peggy’s household whose outbursts repeatedly disturb the group. She recounts how she caused Lohmann to fall into the Isar after he followed her onto a stone...

• Howard (played by Don Wahl) — supporting

  Howard is a restless traveler introduced while being driven through the countryside. He asks to be taken to a nightclub, borrows money, and speaks openly about failed attempts at love and marriage. La...

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Peggy → Isolde (Power Crisis Manager) — Peggy often assumes practical control when Isolde destabilizes the group.

  Peggy is repeatedly called upon to manage crises caused by Isolde's emotional outbursts, which disturb the household.

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Sylvie → Christine (Alliance Household Companions) — They are fellow members of the communal group.

  Sylvie and Christine live together with Peggy and Isolde in the improvised household and share its conflicts and survival pressures.

• Howard → Thomas (Social Contrasting Outsiders) — Both are displaced men connected to the group's unstable social world.

  Howard arrives after a restless journey and speaks about failed love and marriage, while Thomas is an expelled young man seeking a changed life.

• Isolde → Lohmann (Conflict Fatal Adversaries) — Their encounter becomes the film's central violent conflict.

  Isolde says that Lohmann pursued her, followed her onto a stone at the Isar, and fell into the river after she helped him fall because he could not sw...

• Thomas → Christine (Social Communal Companion) — Their connection is based on proximity within the group.

  Christine belongs to the household into which Thomas is drawn, where the members share unstable daily life.

• Thomas → Isolde (Social Communal Companion) — They share the group's anti-conventional environment.

  Thomas spends time with the women in the household, including Isolde, while discussing escape from civilization and practical survival.

• Thomas → Sylvie (Social Communal Companion) — Their relationship develops through group life rather than formal commitment.

  Thomas is drawn into the group containing Sylvie, and he spends time with the women in their shared living situation.

• Peggy → Howard (Alliance Escape Partners) — Their proposed departure creates a fragile partnership.

  Howard offers Peggy money and a chance to leave with him for Morocco, and she finally agrees not to abandon him.

• Peggy → Christine (Social Household Associate) — They are connected through the shared household.

  Peggy and Christine live within the same group, whose days involve arguments, drinking, and attempts to survive outside ordinary society.

• Peggy → Sylvie (Social Household Associate) — Their connection is grounded in shared communal life.

  Peggy and Sylvie are both part of the group living together in improvised conditions.

• Peggy → Thomas (Social Household Acquaintance) — They interact within the unstable communal household.

  Thomas is drawn into Peggy's household circle and spends time with Peggy and the other women.

Story Analysis

A group living outside conventional society confronts unstable freedom, dangerous violence, and the possibility of escape.

Plot Progression

1. Restless Outsiders — Howard arrives after a troubled journey and speaks about failed love and marriage. Thomas, an expelled young man seeking change, enters the same unstable social world.
2. Communal Disorder — Thomas becomes part of a household shared by Peggy, Isolde, Sylvie, and Christine. Sleeping, drinking, arguments, and emotional crises expose the group's fragile way of life.
3. Dangerous Spectacle — The group discusses escape from civilization and experiments with sulphur, saltpeter, and carbon. Their hoped-for publicity stunt reflects both political provocation and material desperation.
4. The Isar Revelation — Isolde recounts how Lohmann pursued her to the Isar and fell into the river after she helped him lose his balance. His disappearance and missing Mustang force the group to confront possible concealmen...
5. A Fragile Departure — The group debates freedom, sexual independence, and responsibility after the violent incident. Howard offers Peggy money and a Moroccan escape, and she agrees not to abandon him despite the unresolved...