Es Dach Ueberem Chopf (1962) Reviews

This is not the only European drama to handle the universal topic of how to find affordable housing when you are dirt poor with several mouths to feed, but it is one of the more engaging of its type. Laced throughout with comic nuances, the story starts out with an impoverished couple and their brood of half a dozen children barely managing to survive in a small shanty. One day the wealthy owner of an apartment complex makes the family an offer they would never turn down -- a modern, capacious apartment at a fraction of its real value. The family jumps at the chance and they move in, not knowing that the landlord only plans to take advantage of their raucous children to drive out some unwanted tenants. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi