"Man spricht deutsh" is a fairly short German film from almost 30 years ago starring Gerhard Polt. Polt was one of the most known German comedy actors from that time, even if he is not really known to many today anymore. The reason may be that he has not really been prolific recently or maybe also that his films have not aged as well as the films of Loriot for example, who was also pretty famous around that time already, actually before. Writer and director here is Hanns Christian Müller, who has worked with Polt on several occasions and same goes for female lead actress Gisela Schneeberger, who is still acting in many projects these days and together with the late Dieter Hildebrandt the most known cast member almost 3 decades later.
So yeah, this film was made shortly before the Fall of the Berllin Wall and it is a West German production, which is why it is almost entirely unpolitical and instead goes for the cultural differences in behavior between Germans and Italians. The film is 100% comedy and the intentional spelling error in the title already shows that this one should not be taken seriously by audiences as it was not taken seriously by the people who made this. Interestingly enough, I think that spelling error is something that non-German native speakers will see than Germans really. I myself (as a German native speaker) only did not recognize it intentionally. Sadly, there aren't too many funny scenes in this film really. Like I said, Polt's works may not have aged too well. And even German native speakers may need subtitles here as the Bavarian accent is sometimes so thick that it is impossible to understand everything they are saying. Overall, not a particularly good watch and I can see why people who watch this may think German humor sucks. However, there are many funny German comedies actually, for example the 2 movies by the aforementioned Loriot. As for "Man spricht deutsh", I do not recommend it and it does not get me curious about Polt's other works either. Thumbs down.
So yeah, this film was made shortly before the Fall of the Berllin Wall and it is a West German production, which is why it is almost entirely unpolitical and instead goes for the cultural differences in behavior between Germans and Italians. The film is 100% comedy and the intentional spelling error in the title already shows that this one should not be taken seriously by audiences as it was not taken seriously by the people who made this. Interestingly enough, I think that spelling error is something that non-German native speakers will see than Germans really. I myself (as a German native speaker) only did not recognize it intentionally. Sadly, there aren't too many funny scenes in this film really. Like I said, Polt's works may not have aged too well. And even German native speakers may need subtitles here as the Bavarian accent is sometimes so thick that it is impossible to understand everything they are saying. Overall, not a particularly good watch and I can see why people who watch this may think German humor sucks. However, there are many funny German comedies actually, for example the 2 movies by the aforementioned Loriot. As for "Man spricht deutsh", I do not recommend it and it does not get me curious about Polt's other works either. Thumbs down.