Affengeil (English title: Life is Like a Cucumber) is a 1990 German semi-documentarian film by Rosa von Praunheim.

[1][2] Film about the life of Lotti Huber, who was discovered by Rosa von Praunheim for the big stage when she was almost 70 years old.

The multi-talented artist tells a moving story about catastrophes and successes that she has experienced.

(The Motion Picture Guide, 1993) The German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung wrote: "Praunheim's fictional documentaries or documentary fictions, however one may categorize the works of the auteur filmmaker, are characterized on the one hand by an amazingly self-deprecating sincerity and on the other hand by a deeply affectionate description of the people in his worlds.

He erected monuments to the extravagant actress, dancer and diseuse of the Berlin underground [...].