This East German comedy was made about 10 years before the country was reunified, and Socialist Germany ceased to exist. From this perspective, I found it much more interesting in its depicting of daily life in the GDR (hiring construction workers, obtaining building material, bureaucracy, car breakdown, bank credit, divorce proceedings, nude bathing, alcohol) than laugh-out-loud comical.
The story: An entertainer (strong: Rolf Herricht in his last film role) wants to have a vacation home built, in a small town on the Baltic Sea. (He is forced to do so by local authorities, otherwise he'd lose the right to the land.) Against all odds presented by the surrounding society, he jeopardizes his money, car, job, marriage...
The story: An entertainer (strong: Rolf Herricht in his last film role) wants to have a vacation home built, in a small town on the Baltic Sea. (He is forced to do so by local authorities, otherwise he'd lose the right to the land.) Against all odds presented by the surrounding society, he jeopardizes his money, car, job, marriage...