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Overview
Release Date:
22 May 1986 (West Germany) moreGenre:
ComedyPlot:
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3 wins moreUser Comments:
Light comedy with the joke on Honecker moreCast
(Complete credited cast) | Rainer Grenkowitz | ... | Meier |
| Nadja Engelbrecht | ... | Lore |
| Alexander Hauff | ... | Kalle |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Curt Ackermann | ... | Colonel |
| Charlotte Adami | ... | Mrs. Karpinski |
| Thomas Bestvater | ... | Erwin |
| Dagmar Biener | ... | Moni |
| Clement De Wrobelewsky | ... | Fat Stasi |
| René Grams | ... | Klausi |
| Dieter Hildebrandt | ... | Waiter |
| Johanna Karl-Lory | ... | Grandma Krause |
| Joachim Kemmer | ... | Kretschmer |
| Jürgen Klauß | ... | Comrade Liebmann |
| Elke Knittel | ... | Customer |
| Steffen Laube | ... | Second leather jacket |
| Bernd Ludwig | ... | Kumpel |
 | Klaus Münster | ... | Border Guard |
| Wolfgang Nusche | ... | Uncle Werner |
| Horst Pinnow | ... | Kuno |
| Eberhard Prüter | ... | Customs Officer |
| Ilse Ranft | ... | Comrade Struntz |
| Tamara Rohloff | ... | The Beauty |
| Susanne Schiffmann-Grabe | ... | Ulla |
| Edith Teichmann | ... | Aunt Inge |
| Bernd Vollbrecht | ... | Leisure leather jacket |
| Hans-Jürgen Wolf | ... | First leather jacket |
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Germany:96 minCountry:
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West Germany:12Filming Locations:
Berlin, GermanyMOVIEmeter: 
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An East German uses an inheritance to buy himself a West German passport. However he can't keep away from his East German friends. As with all the best comedies, the action builds up to an eventual crisis.
So it's a light comedy, with nothing bad or very good about it. In particular, the acting is good, but not outstanding. However the film is very political, preferring capitalist glitz to communist squalor. The best moment comes when the hero is asked whether he is West German or East German and he replies "gesamtdeutsch", which I would guess translates as "all-German". I left feeling what a total obscenity that stupid Wall was.
I should say that I only wrote this review because nobody else seems to have bothered. My German is still pretty basic and I expect I missed quite a lot.