Storyline

Post-war Berlin is the microcosm of the polarization of West and East; American and Soviet. C.R. MacNamara's Coca-Cola's head of West Berlin operations, His life goes into a spin when he must deal with the visit of Scarlett Hazeltine; the 17yo spoilt daughter of his boss. On the same day Mac hears Mr. & Mrs. Hazeltine will be iarriving in a day, he also learns Scarlett's married Otto Ludwig Piffl, a staunch East German Communist. Mac also learns Scarlett's pregnant, Mac has to get Otto, and turn him into a respectable young man for the soon-to-be arriving boss... and Otto's father-in-law.

Plot Keywords

berlin germany, iron curtain, based on play, cold war, cold war era, american in europe, coca cola, border crossing, american abroad, east berlin east germany, russian abroad, farce, foreign language adaptation, number in title, comma in title, propaganda, year 1961, screwball comedy, secretary, 1960s

Short Review

Past the manic frenzy of the screwball comedy are many sly nods to the frosty Cold War relations between the East and the West.

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