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Life Is All You Get (Das Leben ist eine Baustelle, 1997) is a German drama-comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Wolfgang Becker directed it six years before Goodbye Lenin! — and the same wry attention to people navigating rough patches is already fully in place. Jürgen Vogel and Christiane Paul lead.
Jan's life collapses in quick succession: no job, no father, no girlfriend. Then he runs into Vera — a chaotic street musician who is more loud problem than neat solution. What develops between them is too honest to be a feel-good romance and too warm to be cynical. Martina Gedeck and Armin Rohde fill out the supporting cast.
Becker shoots ordinary Berlin with the same eye he'd later bring to the GDR — slightly off-kilter, always watching the people more than the setting. Stream Life Is All You Get online on iFILM.
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