Laikals
The greatest movie ever made..!
Lidia Draper
Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.
Darin
One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.
kosmasp
There are two different words in the German language that translate into the word "you" in English. One of them is a formal word, that is being used when you refer/talk to someone you don't know that well or as a form of respect. The other is being used by friends. The former mostly is connected to you referring to the other person as Mister (Lehmann). And this is where one of the jokes of the movie lies. The use of that word and something might be impossible to translate (I have no idea how one would try to).That might have been a lengthy explanation to a simple joke, but hopefully it also made clear, how the humor of the movie works. And a former VJ (MTV) is in the center of it all. Watching him take his first steps into "major" acting and succeeding is more than satisfying.
bob_bear
Character driven...the strength of this film is its lack of narrative drive......and the weakness of this film is its lack of narrative drive...I'm all for films that break away from the conventions...but this one is...The greasy haired Herr Lehmann does not engage me. Nor do his cronies. The film is like a stream of consciousness with no resolution. The 10p ending of the fall of the wall is? Like, Na...und? What does it have to do with anything??? Didn't enjoy it. Kinda interesting and kinda boring.I love Berlin. I love Kreuzberg. It was nice to spend an hour or two in that lokal...but it would have been better spent with interesting people. A nerd and his nerdy friends didn't do it for me. I'd rather have followed Soda Pop (Fanta) Rainer's story.
zieglerh
Read the book, it's great. The movie is very disappointing. Bad adaption of the story, worst casting. Sorry, but Mr. Ulmen didn't perform very well as Herr Lehmann. Detlev Buck couldn't save the movie.If you have read the book, don't see this movie. If you haven't, read it.
eisbaer2001
The film opens with a great and also very funny scene. The drunken and tired Herr Lehmann walks down the streets to reach his apartment. Finally he sees himself confronted with an awful dog!He grabs into his pockets and finds some booze. In the end both are more or less drunken, Lehmann and the dog.Two police officers drive by and wonder about this strange event...
This film has everything you can laugh, cry or cheer about and in the end the Berlin Wall is teared down, too.Go and see it.
