Unemployed dad fakes his way into rich parent circles, then accidentally steals €500K. Chaos ensues.
Georg, a professional improviser, wants the best for his epileptic child—and he finds it in a chic daycare center in Leipzig. He can't admit that he's unemployed and his wife works as a cleaning lady. With a doctored biography and rusty charm, he fakes his way into the hip parenthood scene as a supposed event manager, organizing flea markets, barbecuing, smoking weed, and taking over the cash register. The fact that there is almost half a million euros in it is initially a "gift" that Georg soon uses to treat himself to a lavish lifestyle without anyone noticing – and to become more and more like the hip parents. But as he juggles credit cards, his shady dealings increasingly begin to turn against him.
Acting
Jan Krauter's desperate charm keeps you rooting for a disaster
Writing
Sharp observation of hipster-parent hypocrisy in East German cities
Director
Ester Amrami
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Leipzig's gentrified S├╝dvorstadt neighborhood is practically a character here—the film satirizes East Germany's new elite who fled Berlin's rising rents.
Director Ester Amrami based Georg's improvised fraud on real 'integration' stories she encountered as an Israeli filmmaker in Germany—where performance of belonging becomes survival.
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