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I love this movie so much

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

***********************May contain SPOILERS!!!*******************Mister Lehmann is 30 years old and lives in Berlin. He works in a tavern and like his life although nothing special happened in it. But then he felt in love and his life seems to change. But she don't know if she loves Lehmann or if she only be in love. His best friend, at least he think he is, get more and more depressive. "Kristall-Rainer" seems to be a cop and he realize more and more that he's felt in love. And all that happened in the time nearly the Fall of the Wall. This movie shows this historical time from a simple point of view of a simple human being and, that's important, in West Berlin. So slight and funny hints ("why do people in the east need a world clock?") and so deep senses of the characters. Awesome! Christian Ulmen seems to become a great actor, unless he is at present! Lehmanns lethargic moral conduct paired with funny dialogs makes a bizarre and hilarious spirit. The best German comedy in the last years beside "Lammbock", also if this movie can't be pigeonhole.

I totally don't see why people would like this movie, or give it good votes. The acting is extremely poor, the storyline is very boring, and even though the director "tried" to put the movie to a higher level, by putting in some weird scenes, he just makes it all chaotic and totally annoying.Except for Detlev Buck, who is doing OK IMHO, every single person in this movie seems to never have attended acting classes. The actors are so crap that it is really starting to annoy right when the movie starts.The movie is also full of surreptitious advertising made by Becks. Without counting it i would guess there are about 50 Beck's bottles shown in the movie, often with the camera on those bottles instead of the actors.I voted 2/10, giving credit to some ideas which might have been nice, if they were executed properly.

feels a lot like going back deep into the late 80`s in Germany. Lot`s of beer, music and men`s talk. Great performance from Christian Ulmen aka Herr Lehmann in his first feature film.

As a fan of Sven Regener's (Author of Novel and Screenplay) Band "Element of Crime" I read the book and was really looking forward to see this picture. In some way I was hoping for a better "Soloalbum", an other adaptation of a German so-called "Pop-Novel". After seeing Soloalbum I really had the desire to kill just anyone involved in this movie that was nothing but let's say an average Romantic Comedy, having deleted all the cynicism, the melancholy the humor and the truth which made the book so marvelous. But let's get back to Herr Lehmann: I got what I hoped for! Sven Regener carefully adapted his own story for the big screen, transforming some words into images, thoughts into dialogs, leaving out what had to be left out and keeping this special humor that was one of the characteristics of the book. The only thing I missed is the Chapter about the "Ku'damm-Bus", which I would have loved to see on screen, but who cares about this detail... The cast (consisting of some of the best German On-Screen-Actors of the "old school" and a bunch of great Newcomers) is nearly perfect. It would take to long to name all the actors who played their roles so authentic and sometimes getting into the field of warm-hearted satire. The one that takes it all is obviously Detlev Buck playing Herr Lehmann's best friend Karl in a way that will be remembered for long time, I suppose. The soundtrack is really cool and the photography by Frank Griebe (besides Michael Ballhaus probably the best German Cinematographer at present) finds the perfect images to illustrate the life of the Boheme in West-Berlin at the end of the 80s. Leander Haußmann after all succeeded in even topping his first movie "Sonnenallee" and is now responsible for two of the best German pictures of the past years.