Unlike many of his colleagues, Curt Bois, a former child star and a versatile actor and comedian throughout the 1920s who left Germanyone week after the Nazi takeover, was rarely seen in early sound cinema. He appeared in only three films between 1931 and 1932. The best (surviving) one he directed himself. Scherben bringen Glück is a delightful, perfectly calibrated miniature of slapstick comedy: a genre German cinema often struggles with, but which Bois handles beautifully both behind and in front of the camera. He plays a young man in love, who tries to win over his girl’s overbearing aunt by buying a Chinese vase at an auction. As you might expect, the precious object does not stay in one piece for long

Lukas Foerster