A policeman named Franz Eberhofer makes people laugh again. Brad Pitt races through Japan as a hitman on a bullet train, and a Bedouin and an orthodox Jew are lost in the desert.
“Guglhupfgeschwader”: Eighth film about the village policeman
Munich – Fans of Franz Eberhofer have a fixed date at the beginning of August: the theatrical release of a new comedy about the loner village policeman, based on the crime novels by Rita Falk. In “Guglhupfgeschwader” Sebastian Bezzel plays the policeman for the eighth time after the great successes of the previous films (“Sauerkrautkoma”, “Kaiserschmarrndrama”). Eberhofer could actually look forward to his service anniversary this time. Unfortunately, he not only has to deal with unexpected (family) growth beforehand, but also with gambling and organized crime.Guglhupfschwader, Germany 2022, 97 min, FSK from 12, by Ed Herzog, with Sebastian Bezzel, Simon Schwarz, Lisa Maria Potthoff and Stefanie Reinsperger
“Bullet Train”: Brad Pitt as a careful assassin
Berlin (AP) – Brad Pitt plays a leading role in this slapstick action comedy by David Leitch. He’s Ladybug, a hitman who got on the mindfulness trip and after too much chaos now wants to do his job in peace. However, his new mission, which takes him onto a Japanese bullet train, gets in the way. On the train from Tokyo to Kyoto, he meets several other assassins. They all have opposite goals, but are connected in some ways. Bullet Train is a film adaptation of a novel by Japanese author Kōtarō Isaka.
Bullet Train, USA 2022, 127 minutes, FSK 16+, by David Leitch, with Brad Pitt, Sandra Bullock, Zazie Beetz, Joey King, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry
“Not Quite Kosher”: Weird road trip through the Sinai
Berlin (dpa) – There is hardly a more colorful sub-genre than the so-called culture clash comedy, in which supposedly completely opposite, completely incompatible worlds meet. In “Not Quite Kosher” it is an Arab Bedouin and an ultra-Orthodox Jew who meet in a desert: To avoid his family’s matchmaking attempts in Jerusalem, Ben offers to fly to Alexandria in Egypt to meet the formerly largest resident there to save the world’s Jewish community. The 10th man is urgently missing to celebrate the important Jewish Passover festival. After Ben first missed the plane and then got thrown off the bus in the Sinai Desert, Adel, a Bedouin looking for his camel, becomes Ben’s last hope.
Not quite kosher, D 2022, 121 min, FSK from 6, by Stefan Sarazin and Peter Keller, with Luzer Twersky, Hitham Omari, Makram Khoury dpa
