Visitors at our cinema once in a while would ask, whether they could buy the poster of a movie we were playing. It was no big business, but some movie posters were incredibly sought after.
Maybe the most successful one was of a German comedy by the trendy director Doris Dörrie, whose movies somehow were always very successful, but otherwise not particularly memorable. We were quite puzzled by the success of this particular poster, since it showed no picture on it, just simply the title of the movie painted in large letters: Keiner liebt mich - Nobody loves me!
We at the cinema joked about the whole affair imagining sulky twens sitting on the pots of their bathrooms and staring at the words 'nobody loves me'.
One day 2 policeman in full uniform entered the cinema - always a bit alarming - and went straight to the ticket counter. We said how we could help them. "Well, a colleague of ours has his birthday soon, and we'd like to buy him a movie poster for his office." We asked them which one. The reply: "Keiner liebt mich" - without even batting an eye...
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