A Coffee in Berlin, originally titled Oh Boy, is a 2012 German tragicomedy film written and directed by Jan-Ole Gerster in his feature directorial debut.

It stars Tom Schilling, Friederike Kempter, Marc Hosemann, Katharina Schüttler, Justus von Dohnányi, and Michael Gwisdek.

It follows an aimless university dropout who attempts to make sense of life as he spends one fateful day wandering the streets of Berlin.

The man talks about his personal problems and eventually weeps, while Niko awkwardly consoles this stranger.

The boys go to a movie set, where Matze's friend is the main actor playing a Nazi officer in WW2 in love with a Jewish woman he shelters in his basement.

They squeeze into their seats and sit through a confusing avant garde dance theater play in which Julika mimes eating her own body followed by vomiting.

An elderly drunk man takes a seat beside him, talking constantly, even though Niko asks him to leave him alone.

As a small child he was trained to salute Hitler and he witnessed his father smashing the windows of the store that is now a bar.

A Coffee in Berlin was produced by Schiwago Film in co-production with Chromosom Filmproduktion, Hessischen Rundfunk, and Arte, with support from the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.

The website's consensus reads: "Amiably slight, A Coffee in Berlin compensates for its lack of narrative drive with a sure-handed screenplay and echoes of early Woody Allen.

"[12] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 63 out of 100, based on 19 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.

[13] Mark Kermode of The Observer gave the film 3 out of 5 stars and felt that "Tom Schilling is convincingly bedraggled as the aimless slacker who stumbles from one dourly comical situation to another.

"[14] Sheri Linden of The Hollywood Reporter stated, "With its put-upon protagonist, black-and-white cityscape and snappy soundtrack of New Orleans-style jazz, the comedy Oh Boy inescapably brings to mind vintage Woody Allen."

Linden called Schilling "an exceptionally appealing idler, and a number of well-known German actors etch memorable supporting turns.

"[15] Rachel Saltz of The New York Times opined, "If A Coffee in Berlin has its own kind of formula and a romanticism that reads as both youthful and obscuring, it nevertheless absorbs you and makes you wonder what Mr. Gerster will do next.

"[16] Martin Tsai of the Los Angeles Times wrote, "In spite of its insufferably whimsical tendencies — exemplified by its original title, Oh Boy — the film may have turned out to be a deeply profound modern postscript about fascism.

"[17] Eric Kohn of IndieWire gave the film a "B+" grade and remarked, "Given that it's a modern day, black-and-white depiction of a forlorn single person incapable of getting his act together, A Coffee in Berlin unavoidably contains echoes of Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha."

Kohn also stated, "Despite its series of capricious developments, A Coffee in Berlin finds a rich blend of humor and sadness in its leading man's predicament.

"[18] Peter Debruge of Variety wrote, "This day-in-the-life indie says something profound about an entire generation simply by watching a feckless young man try to figure it out.

"[20] Conversely, Rex Reed of Observer.com gave the film 1 out of 4 stars and opined, "From Germany's New Wave, a tedious exercise in tedium called A Coffee in Berlin is a black-and-white template of nothingness that shows how far the once unique and inventive German film industry has plummeted."

Reed additionally criticized, "It's only 88 minutes long, but in the hands of director Jan Ole Gerster, it seems like a month of hard labor.

"[21] Leslie Felperin of The Guardian gave the film 2 out of 5 stars and commented that it "seemingly aims to transplant a mumblecore aesthetic into Berlin, with all the requisite aimless hipsters, whimsical touches and rambling narrative dips and dives; but someone forgot to add spontaneity or edge.