Everything Will Be Fine (1998 film)

Everything Will Be Fine (German: Alles Wird Gut) is a German comedy film written by Angelina Maccarone and Fatima El-Tayeb, released in 1998.[1] Everything Will Be Fine was the first German film since Toxi with Black German female protagonist. Additionally, it was the first German comedy with a non-white protagonist.[1] The film aired on German TV and brought novelty to German film through its use of comedy to highlight racism.[1] Maccarone drew from screwball comedy of the 1930s and took it back, made it witty, and “queered” it.[2] Additionally, Everything Will Be Fine moved away from a “problem film”, one that accentuates strangeness, to a film that highlights black female protagonists who are self-sufficient and free.[2] The black characters were not depicted as strangers or problems for the German nation through Maccarone's ability to show the “everydayness” of black Germans.[2] This is in stark contrast to Toxi, a 1952 German film, that highlights Toxi, a young black German girl, as a problem.

Cast

Nabou: Kati Studemann

Kim: Chantal de Freitas

Giuseppa: Isabella Parkinson

Kofi: Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss

Katja: Aglaia Szyszkowitz

Dieter: Uwe Rohde

Reception

The film won the 1998 Best Feature Film Award at the Paris Lesbian and Feminist Film Festival.[3]

References
  1. Mukhida, L. (2012), AGAINST THE PULL OF CONVENTION: SUBVERSIVE LAUGHTER IN ANGELINA MACCARONE'S ALLES WIRD GUT. German Life and Letters, 65: 489-502. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0483.2012.01584.x
  2. Alexander Weheliye. “Identity Politics in Germany" Lecture. February 2018. Northwestern University.
  3. "1998". Cineffable. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
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