Photo: ZDF/ DPALast year the biggest summer film release was a feel-good comedy about a refugee living with a German family. The biggest grossing German movie last year was a fizzy feel-good summer comedy about the country's refugee influx, "Welcome to the Hartmanns". Just a year on, German screens are darkening with "Club Europa", a sobering take on the challenges and dilemmas in the newcomers' integration that mirrors a growing national sense of ambivalence. But the light tone of the movie soon grows ominous as Samuel's asylum request is rejected by the authorities. The arrival of tens of thousands of asylum seekers cheered by volunteers handing out food, water and teddy bears at German rail stations became the defining image then.

Source: The Local July 27, 2017 11:48 UTC