I got the series after watching Heimat and really enjoying that. Many of those who reviewed that series recommended this. So I bought it. What a mistake. This has no story and it is a long self indulgent film. It is depressing and does not even provide a useful and interesting background to the German Weimar period. And as one reviewer pointed out, it was difficult to believe that the 'anti-hero', could ever attractive a woman. Never mind having a number of beautiful young women falling over him!
If you want to be depressed go for it. But as someone whose mother spent time in Germany at the same period. This film is a very poor representation of life in the 1930's.
If you want to be depressed go for it. But as someone whose mother spent time in Germany at the same period. This film is a very poor representation of life in the 1930's.