Sonnenallee

Micha also has to deal with the problem of being probably the only sane member of his family. His sister changes boyfriends more often than she changes her underwear, his father fakes epilepsy just to get a telephone installed and his uncle smuggles goods from the West which they already have in the East. The communist east shown here is full of misguided eccentrics and loveable rogues and the guards are incompetent and sloppy enough to keep the mood of the film for the most part up beat. Much like Life is Beautiful the characters live in a fairy tale which still retains a dark underlying reality. The novel on which the film is based, Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee (At the Shorter End of Sonnenallee), was written by Thomas Brussig. MUFTI is a German acronym for Multi Function Table.