Comedy crime caper set during the reunification of Germany.
It’s the last week before the East German currency becomes obsolete. Everybody’s been laid off, and are considering how to start all over again now their way of life is ending. A trio of old friends persuade a security worker to let them into the local military bunker, and swipe a fortune from the stockpile of withdrawn currency. They are millionaires for the next three days, but how to spend it?
Two to One is about the tussle in the East German cultural psyche as capitalism meets communism. “Greed eats brains” a character says at one point, and god that’s right. It’s not simply about money, taking and spending it – it’s about how it changes how you think, who you consider, what is the unit of ‘you’. Family, friends, community, what price to protect them?
A lovely warm film that invokes hope is the aftermath of a world washing away.