A Stasi Comedy
Updated: Jun 20, 2022
A Stasi Comedy
Director: Leander Haußmann
A little like putting the Stasi through a 'Hogan’s Heroes' filter
No one doubts that the Stasi were a brutal lot but director Leander Haußmann has decided to roll out a comedy about the dinosaur regime on the verge of extinction, and it is a hoot.
Our young Stasi officer, Ludger Fuchs (David Kross) is recruited to infiltrate the bohemian sector; an area of East Germany where there is poetry, literature, free love and an infatuation with state disobedience.
Infiltrate he does, discovering love, sex, poetry, sex, comradeship sex, parties, sex, and a gift for writing … eventually finding himself in a situation where he has to decide whether to be a Stasi Officer or a renowned poet of freedom with beautiful girlfriends and a life of joy. Hard choice for a young man? Hmmmmm :)
A Stasi Comedy is recounted through the eyes of a much older Fuchs, living in the free world and enjoying the life of a renowned author. He has just received the file that the Stasi kept on him.
Part of the German Film Festival and a delight.