Everything Will Be Fine (1998 film)

Everything Will Be Fine (German: Alles wird gut) is a German comedy film written by Angelina Maccarone and Fatima El-Tayeb, released in 1998.[1] Everything Will Be Fine was the first German film since Toxi with a Black German female protagonist. Additionally, it was the first German comedy with a non-white protagonist.[1] The film aired on German TV and brought novelty to German film through its use of comedy to highlight racism.[1] Maccarone drew from screwball comedy of the 1930s and took it back, made it witty, and “queered” it.[2] Additionally, Everything Will Be Fine moved away from a “problem film”, one that accentuates strangeness, to a film that highlights black female protagonists who are self-sufficient and free.[2] The black characters were not depicted as strangers or problems for the German nation through Maccarone's ability to show the “everydayness” of black Germans.[2] This is in stark contrast to Toxi, a 1952 German film, that highlights Toxi, a young black German girl, as a problem.