Everything Will Be Fine (1998)

Original title

Alles wird gut

Directed by

Angelina Maccarone

Genre

drama film, comedy film, romance film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 28m

Rating

3.4 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A German comedy about a Black queer woman navigating life and love. The film treats her story as normal and fun, not as a struggle or a problem.

wittylightheartedplayfulupbeatmodernself-assuredeverydaywarmquirky

What happens

Everything Will Be Fine (German: Alles wird gut) is a German comedy film written by Angelina Maccarone and Fatima El-Tayeb, released in 1998. Everything Will Be Fine was one of the first German films since Toxi with a Black German female protagonist. Additionally, it was the first German comedy with a non-white protagonist. The film aired on German TV and brought novelty to German film through its use of comedy to highlight racism. Maccarone drew from screwball comedy of the 1930s and took it back, made it witty, and “queered” it. 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. The film highlights different ways of being Black, Queer, and German, 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. This is in stark contrast to Toxi, a 1952 German film, that highlights Toxi, a young black German girl, as a problem. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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