"Der Hodscha und die Piepenkötter" tells the story of a power-hungry mayor, that has to find a difficult balance when her voters begin to strongly oppose the local mosque. At the same time an orthodox hardliner tries to take over the muslim community and the hodscha's daughter falls in love with the mayor's daughter.
Already from this short description you get quite a good impression what a mess this plot is. The general, often humorous, fight between the two main characters in itself is quite charming, however this story is just so unlikely and obviously constructed that at some times it is hard to take it fully serious. As much as I support every effort to oppose right wing hardliners, films like this one won't do the deal and in fact are more of a burden than support.
All in all this is humor for old people. Provocative but not too much, stereotypical in the attempt to minimize stereotypes but still with some decent moments and no harm done.
Already from this short description you get quite a good impression what a mess this plot is. The general, often humorous, fight between the two main characters in itself is quite charming, however this story is just so unlikely and obviously constructed that at some times it is hard to take it fully serious. As much as I support every effort to oppose right wing hardliners, films like this one won't do the deal and in fact are more of a burden than support.
All in all this is humor for old people. Provocative but not too much, stereotypical in the attempt to minimize stereotypes but still with some decent moments and no harm done.