Keinohrhasen (2007) and Zweiohrküken (2009) are one continuous story, so I’ll include them both here. Both are co-written by, directed by, and star Til Schweiger.
Zweiohrküken makes more sense if you have seen Keinohrhasen – the characters are really developed in the first film, so not much time is taken to do so in the second. A lot of the side characters we meet are quite shallow and they create problems between the couple.
In the first film, Til Schweiger’s character Lugo is quite shallow and a womanizer, but he ends up having to work with a day care as a punishment. He meets Anna and tries to become a better person for her. In the second, he’s starting to revert to the previous attitude and she stoops to his level to show him two can play that game. She brings an old friend into the picture in the same way he started.
Til Schweiger’s children play children in this film. They had been taking part in more and more of his films. Valentin has recently switched to the camera side of the business, and has been working on Dark. Emma, Luna, and Lilli still work in front of the camera. We also get to see Nora Tschirner and Matthias Schweighöfer again in this film. Schweighöfer plays a hopeless young man trying to pick up girls. He is great comedy relief throughout the film. Many of the stars of Kebab Connection and Almanya make appearances throughout the film as well.
The film starts out with a dream that turns inappropriate very quickly. Most of the film is in the PG-13 range after that, but if you’re concerned about sexual connotations, neither of these films would be for you.