Everything Will Be Fine (1998 film)

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Everything Will Be Fine (German : Alles wird gut) is a German comedy film written by Angelina Maccarone and Fatima El-Tayeb, released in 1998. [1] Everything Will Be Fine was the first German film since Toxi with a Black German female protagonist. Additionally, it was the first German comedy with a non-white protagonist. [1] The film aired on German TV and brought novelty to German film through its use of comedy to highlight racism. [1] Maccarone drew from screwball comedy of the 1930s and took it back, made it witty, and “queered” it. [2] Additionally, Everything Will Be Fine moved away from a “problem film”, one that accentuates strangeness, to a film that highlights black female protagonists who are self-sufficient and free. [2] The black characters were not depicted as strangers or problems for the German nation through Maccarone's ability to show the “everydayness” of black Germans. [2] This is in stark contrast to Toxi , a 1952 German film, that highlights Toxi, a young black German girl, as a problem.

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The film won the Best Feature Film Award at the 1998 Paris Lesbian and Feminist Film Festival, [3] and the Audience Award at the 1998 Inside Out Film and Video Festival.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Mukhida, L. (2012), AGAINST THE PULL OF CONVENTION: SUBVERSIVE LAUGHTER IN ANGELINA MACCARONE'S ALLES WIRD GUT. German Life and Letters, 65: 489-502. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0483.2012.01584.x
  2. 1 2 3 Alexander Weheliye. “Identity Politics in Germany" Lecture. February 2018. Northwestern University.
  3. ↑ "1998". Cineffable . Retrieved 5 May 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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