Having said that, if you do know it then it is a ridiculously funny film.
I'm a non-german but with ties to the GDR and I lived in the BRD for years. I'm amazed how they (all involved) carried it off so 'convincingly', the whole sound and feel of the film. I've just watched it again mainly because there wasn't much else on that evening, given covid and all. I'm so glad I did. I'd forgotten quite how silly it is and I really needed a good laugh.
It takes away nothing of the hard and serious times people were going through. It doesn't make a mockery of them. It's target is the party/state centre. I'm aware that I'm repeating most of what another reviewer has already said, but it wants saying again. This film is worth seeing because it's a funny film and because, whilst I understand there are many who might not want to be reminded of the period, we need to remember it. And we may as well be laughing when we do it.
I'm a non-german but with ties to the GDR and I lived in the BRD for years. I'm amazed how they (all involved) carried it off so 'convincingly', the whole sound and feel of the film. I've just watched it again mainly because there wasn't much else on that evening, given covid and all. I'm so glad I did. I'd forgotten quite how silly it is and I really needed a good laugh.
It takes away nothing of the hard and serious times people were going through. It doesn't make a mockery of them. It's target is the party/state centre. I'm aware that I'm repeating most of what another reviewer has already said, but it wants saying again. This film is worth seeing because it's a funny film and because, whilst I understand there are many who might not want to be reminded of the period, we need to remember it. And we may as well be laughing when we do it.