Sonntagsfahrer (Sunday Drivers) is a 1963 East German comedy drama film directed by Gerhard Klein for the DEFA studio.

The screenplay for the film was written by Wolfgang Kohlhaase and Georg Edel, and is about six disgruntled citizens of Leipzig who try to leave East Germany for West Berlin.

Six Leipzig citizens intend to leave the German Democratic Republic together for West Berlin on August 12, 1961.

Mr. Spiessack, an interior designer leads the group, upon receiving information from a former lieutenant in the German Wehrmacht of an apparent impending war.

Sonntagsfahrer was shot under the working title Kehr zurück nach vorn in black and white and had its premiere on August 30, 1963, at the Kino Babylon in Berlin.

[citation needed] Dr. Manfred Jelenski wrote in Berliner Zeitung: "Not a great or even earth-shattering work of art, but a film that is fun to watch".

It is mainly because of its historical explosiveness, as well as the recognizable tendentious attempts to deal with the building of the Wall in the film of the GDR, that make it interesting from today's perspective.