A COFFEE IN BERLIN IS BLACK WITHOUT CREAM OR SUGAR
Director Jan Ole Gerster, born in Hagen near the French border, has had enough of the rudeness of Berliners. So he has made A Coffee in Berlin to expose overly aggressive characters throughout the city, while his hero, Niko Fischer (played by Tom Schilling) puts up with it all phlegmatically, having dropped out of law school, unable to take the next step in his life while encountering other postadolescents acting like adolescents. Although he seeks a cup of coffee, he finds the price too high and a vending machine out of the elixir. But is coffee consumption the reason for all the narcissistic aggressiveness? MH