An explosion in a huge industrial plant producing gas masks leads to utter chaos.

A close-up portrait of Berlin colas carriers from Prenzlauer Berg, Who's Afraid of the Bogeyman features deeply felt, unromanticized sketches of these rough men and their resolute female boss. The film was one of the first to be produced by a female filmmaker as the Berlin Wall fell.

Toward the end of WWII, workers in Dresden send a colleague hundreds of mile north to pick up welding supplies for their factory. His attempts to move the supplies north through the Soviet occupation zone lead to an uproarious odyssey full of hijinks and misadventure in this rare classic of German film comedy.