How ‘Toni Erdmann’ Became an Unexpected Comedy - The New York Times
Rachel Donadio
She herself has said that her inspirations include the American comic Andy Kaufman, as well as the Hollywood films of Ernst Lubitsch and Billy Wilder, and the Berlin theater troupe Gob Squad.
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