This Forum Film Company comedy from Germany, directed by comedian Joe Stoeckle, focuses on a group of German soldiers billeted behind the lines in a captured French town during WW I, and was made only a couple of years before there would be a slew of German troops once again billeted in French towns. The best parts come when the attractive Leny Marenbach and Charlotte Daubert are serving as screen decorations.


Is it worth your time? Honestly? Only if you are a completionist of mid-30s German cinema or have a weirdly high tolerance for situational slapstick that feels like it’s been sitting in a cellar for eighty years. If you want something light and don't mind the fact that the humor is older than your grandparents, you mig...


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Joe Stöckel

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"Is it worth your time? Honestly? Only if you are a completionist of mid-30s German cinema or have a weirdly high tolerance for situational slapstick that feels like it’s been sitting in a cellar for eighty years. If you want something light and don't mind the fact that the humor is older than your grandparents, you might find a chuckle or two. If you hate slow-burn pacing and sub-titles that feel like they're working overtime to explain jokes that don't really land anymore, skip it. The whole p..."
Adolf Wagner
Karl Bunje, F.B. Cortan, Siegmund Graff
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