It was my first Friday in Berlin and I was planning to watch a movie with some friends. As I was new in town, a friend suggested me to watch a movie about Berlin, something to introduce me to the urban Berlin lifestyle. And, as our first B1.2 lesson in Deutsch Akademie was about movies, I thought it would be nice to share this with you.

The movie I want to talk to you about is a comedy released in 2006 and called Schwarze Schafe/Black Sheep. It is a collection of both strange and funny stories whose characters are more or less normal people living more or less normal lives.

First, we meet an Ex Handmodel for Rolex who pretends to get sick in the restaurant of a posh hotel in order to get the most expensive room and seduce the blond gorgeous marketing manager invited for dinner. We also meet two Satanists (one of them wearing a Kelly Family T-shirt haha) that plan to bring Satan’s kingdom back on Earth by performing a weird ritual in which a pig mask and a grandmother in coma are involved. An East-German woman and her drunken boyfriend meet a former schoolmate, now married with a rich man from München, and make a real show on a tourist boat. The Berlin couple ends up in the river, a good pretext to present in a subtle way the mentality differences between Berlin and München.  And, of course, I should not forget the three Turkish boys that try to find some women, but eventually all they find is trouble.

The movie is in German and, at that point, I could only enjoy the English subtitles. But the German friends say the slang language in the movie is totally delicious. Whether you understand German or not, the movie is really fun to see. Especially on a Friday night, with friends.