''Musterknaben'' (''Role Models''; English-language title: ''The Goodies''; also known as ''Das Beschwerdebuch or Alles aus Liebe'') is an

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romantic comedy Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a sub-genre of comedy and Romance novel, romance fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount all obstacles. Ro ...

film, directed by Johannes Knittel. It was originally released in the GDR in 1959 and again in

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in 1960.

Plot

Bassi and Edwin are the two laziest, most irresponsible construction workers in their workers' brigade. When they fall in love with their neighbors Thea and Susi, they pretend to be reliable young men and accompany their friends to a meeting of the local chapter house. To keep up appearances, the two are forced to undertake several duties which they would not have dreamed of doing otherwise. The plot turns into a chain of comical mistakes, but eventually the two new couples reunite and all ends well.

Cast

Reception

The West German Catholic Film Service regarded the film as one "with a weak plot line, the same old gags used over and over again." The film critic of the journal ''Cinema'' wrote that "even in the 1950s, it was not witty."
Musterknaben
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