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This satire on the making of a socially-conscious film by one of the New German Cinema directors pokes fun at the genre itself, and by eschewing a storyline and just presenting a series of anecdotal occurrences, the film also mimics (and mocks) the structure of many NGC efforts. But viewers who are not intimately familiar with the German film scene in the 1970s and early 1980s may find that the humor is whizzing right past them.