LISSI AND THE WILD EMPEROR (LISSI UND DER WILDE KAISER), 2007, 85 min. The animated version of one of Germany’s most-beloved stories, the fairy tale-like marriage between Bavaria's teenage Princess Elizabeth and Austria's Emperor Franz Joseph by spoof director Michael Herbig was a huge box office success. Funny and charming!
RABBIT WITHOUT EARS (KEINOHRHASEN), 2007, 115 min. Actor/Director Til Schweiger offers an ultra-slick romantic comedy, huge box office success, with the new comer Nora Tschirner. Berlin reporter and ladies man Ludo (Til Schweiger) is sentenced to 300 hours of community service in a kindergarten. Teacher Anna wants nothing to do with the ne’er-do-well until Anna’s dormant attraction to the egocentric womanizer starts to blossom.