A Stasi Comedy was a very funny, opening Film for the German Film Festival especially if you were German, because there were so many typical German things in it that were so familiar to the Germans in the audience and even to the non Germans…those who know what Germans are like.
Germans have a reputation for certain idiosyncrasies and behaviors, and this had people laughing from the very start of the film. My favorite scenes were the Pedestrian Crossing and when Ludger the lead character checks out an apartment to rent …both hilarious.
The humor continues throughout the film, primarily by poking fun at The Stasi, and making them look quite ridiculous with their bubbling surveillance officers. It did however get quite complicated through the middle, when Ludger has a trippy mind bending time in the bohemian artists community, and a Stasi party where the much feared head of the Stasi arrives on a golden Statue of a horse, and a giant protest March at the end all gave the film a bit of disconnectedness these and lost the viewer a bit, particularly if you didn’t understand German, overall a great start to the German Film Festival and I would definitely recommend this film.
Review by Gaby Jones
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