Forumrxes Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Roxie The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) "Das doppelte Lottchen" or "Two Times Lotte" is a West German black-and-white film from 1950, so this movie is already over 65 years old. It is one of the two pretty famous works by director Josef von Báky and he also won a German Film Award for it, but the real star here is of course writer Erich Kästner, who also received a German Film Award, just like the movie itself that was honored as best of the year with the Golden Candlestick, the equivalent to the Lola back then. It runs for approximately 100 minutes and I cannot say I am too familiar with the cast here. But the lack of really well-known actors (at least by today's standards) is not the major problem here. The major problem is the writing and this is especially disappointing given Kästner's fame and the fact that he adapted the book himself. It is one major aspect that was frequently a problem, namely the complete lack of shades. All the characters were depicted as likable, except the lover of the girls' father who was depicted completely unlikable, so we would cheer for the parents getting together. It's really cheap and uninspired in my opinion and apart from that I cannot say that I liked the parents a lot. No matter how much they tried to justify it, there is no excuse for denying your daughter that she has not only a sister, but an identical twin. And I personally felt that the Günther twins also did not display the greatest range really. Not surprised at all that they stopped acting quickly. Peter Mosbacher was by far the one who gave the best performance in here. But he alone cannot make up for all the flaws with this movie. I do not recommend the watch and the Lohan (happy 30th birthday Linds!) version is for example far superior.

suchenwi First, I admit to shedding so many tears on this movie since I don't know when. The story of the two unknown sisters who reengineer their parents' marriage is deeply touching, very well executed... and a nice fairy tale ("Kindermärchen", as the last word of the soundtrack says).In practice, divorce isn't children's play. (I've been there myself, divorced with two daughters.) The magic moment where they reunite after 7 years isn't made so plausible either.Anyway, I enjoyed the show - a big sweet dream (with partly impressive cinematography) which includes a very bad dream sequence. In the German version, author Erich Kästner's voice-over is sometimes too much of good, but it certainly adds a stamp of authenticity. Lovely, if you're in that particular mood - I was tonight :^)

dbdumonteil Two girls: one lives with the father and the other with the mother.As they are twins they exchange their personalities and their parents do not notice it.They are trying to rebuild their family ,to reconcile them.This is the kind of stuff which might seem maudlin ,but Joseph Von Baky's treatment is pleasant,nay even interesting: the dreams scenes are the best as if the scenarists had read Bruno Bettelheim (whose book about fairy tales was yet to come).Germany was very fond at the time of those sentimental comedies .It was also Romy Schneider's debut and most of her films were of the same kind.A movie for the whole family,actually for the parents provided that they still keep their child's soul.

Jos Wolffers "Das Doppelte Lottchen" still is a very popular children's book in Germany, and all over the world. Written by Erich Kästner, the book has been turned into countless movies (with the recent "It Takes Two" coming to mind), but this black-and-white German classic still is the best. The story is well-known, and revolves around two girls who find out that they are separated twins, and decide to change identities, in order to reunite their divorced parents. This, of course, leads to many complicated and funny situations. Skip all the other American versions, this German classic is the one to watch. 7/10