08-05-2025
Two to One review — Sandra Hüller can't fix the flat reunification plot
Last year's awards season staple and powerhouse performer Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall, The Zone of Interest) takes a qualitative tumble with this new 'feelgood' comedy about financial scams and money laundering in the week before German reunification in 1990. Hüller plays Maren, an unemployed yet fiercely proud East German who, together with her partner Robert (Max Riemelt) and ex-boyfriend Volker (Ronald Zehrfeld), discovers an enormous underground bunker in Halberstadt, near the border with West Germany.
The bunker has been hastily commandeered to house several thousand tonnes of the country's soon to be defunct banknotes. And so, in the three days left before the deutschmark takeover of October 3, 1990, Maren and Co hatch a mildly convoluted plan to
