Leroy (2007)

Leroy is a 17-year-old boy who lives in Berlin. He prefers reading Goethe and plays the cello, and is especially shy and reserved around girls. With a father who, thanks to his anti-cell-phone-radiation belt—which has been very successful in Japan—can spend his time on further inventions of dubious usefulness, a left-liberal mother, and an intrusive student he tutors, Leroy already has his hands full when, of all people, he falls in love with the beautiful Eva. When she returns his affection, everything could be perfect. Leroy is German, but dark-skinned, while Eva’s surname is Braune and her father is a politician in a right-wing party. Her brothers are also avowed neo-Nazis. So trouble involving Rommel, a suicidal canary; stupid but vicious skinheads; one of Eva’s gay, Jewish acquaintances; and Leroy’s foreign friends is practically inevitable. The situation escalates when far-right extremists, incited by Eva’s brothers, attack Leroy and end up injuring Eva instead. Leroy plunges into a deep identity crisis, which encounters with Blacula, icons of the Black Power movement, and his uninhibited German teacher help him overcome. He then joins his friends in a counterattack and, in the film’s absurdly exaggerated ending, even manages to overcome far-right extremism as a whole by recording a song with Eva’s brothers that reflects the film’s story: “All subcultures have disappeared over time. Rock, punk. Everything was gradually destroyed by music. If I manage to commercialize National Socialism, it too will be destroyed.”