WIR KÖNNEN AUCH ANDERS

In the former West of newly reunited Germany the two brothers hadn't made a great job of making much of their lives. The road to supposed happiness in distant Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is long and rocky; and this not only due to Most's antique flatbed lorry. On the way they encounter young Nazis, seductive women, not-especially-streetwise swindlers and a fugitive yet armed Soviet soldier. Director Detlev Buck's particular, Nordic sense of humour and his playfulness with prejudices are the key ingredients of this German-German post-reunification comedy, not to mention the headline cast in which, in addition to Joachim Król and Horst Krause, stars like Sophie Rois can be seen in the lead roles. The naivety of the protagonists leads to, at times heavily caricatured, at others somewhat exaggerated entanglements and a rather surprising ending. DD