I saw my first film at the cinema in Germany yesterday, This is the latest in a series of crime films set in rural Bavaria. These are based on books by a lady called Rita Falk. Both the films and the books deserve to be better known but I would expect that an English or American version would lose some of the humour.
There is a main character the cop who is Bavarian Bruce Willis and his friend Rudi, they comprise 'the Dream Team'. The other family members, colleagues and friends are always involved in the case or cases as there was a serial murderer in an earlier film. Despite the deaths this is a funny film that celebrates rural Bavaria and its manners and customs.
I saw it at the Sendlinger Tor Cinema which is a great venue and the actors and the writer were there to promote it. There is no way I would have been able to enjoy them talking about working on the film (30 days a year and they produced one during the pandemic) and encouraging people to support local bookshops and not Amazon.
This aspect of Germany is such a revelation. Their vibrant film industry and their humour. Guglhupf Geschwader is doing twice the box office of 'Bullet Train' and I am not surprised. There is no hullabaloo about the promotion of this film, no men dressed in skirts to create attention just hard working actors and writers who enjoy what they are doing.
