Berlin Blues

2003 [GERMAN]

Comedy / Drama

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 89%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 89% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.1/10 10 7790 7.8K

Plot summary

In October 1989, the part of the West Berlin borough of Kreuzberg called SO 36, had been largely shut off by the Wall from the rest of the city for 28 years. A lethargic sub-culture of students, artists, bohemians and barflys had flourished among crumbling buildings. Part of that microcosm is barkeeper Frank, semi-formally called 'Herr Lehmann' by friends and patrons. He hangs out drinking, sports utter disregard for anything beyond SO 36 and lazily pursues an affair with cook Katrin. His lifestyle is gradually disturbed, when his parents show up for a visit, things go awry with Katrin and his best friend Karl starts to act strange. Meanwhile, political turmoil mounts on the other side of the Wall.

Top cast

Bernhard Schütz as Gebissener Streifenpolizist
Uwe Dag Berlin as Jürgen
Christian Ulmen as Herr Lehmann
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1 hr 57 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by eisbaer2001 8 / 10

Great German movie for 2003. Big Beck's Support !

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.
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Reviewed by kosmasp 7 / 10

Seriously funny

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.

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