All About Me

Late Summer Cinema in the Goethe-Institut Garden

Drama // 100 minutes // 2018 // Directed by: Caroline Link

The chubby, nine-year-old Hans-Peter has a talent that he cultivates daily in his grandmother's grocery store; he can make people laugh. Yet, this merriment is clouded by his mother's illness, who suffers from an unexplainable melancholia. This serves to motivate Hans-Peter even further to develop his talent in order to make her happy. The heart-breaking story of the childhood of the famous German comedian Hape Kerkeling raises the question of how a person becomes what he/she is and how childhood continues to affect and impact an individual in adulthood.