Otto – The Alien from East Frisia

Otto – The Alien from East Frisia (1989) is a German comedy you can watch online on iFILM. It's another solo vehicle for Otto Waalkes, the wildly popular German comic from East Frisia, who both stars here and shares the director's chair.

The setup is pure nonsense by design: only Otto can rescue his Frisian homeland, but he can't pull it off alone. He needs his brother, who moved abroad years ago and has no interest in honouring an oath the two swore as kids — and the clock is running down fast. From there it's the trademark Waalkes circus of slapstick, wordplay and cheerful absurdity that several generations of German viewers grew up on. The humour leans hard on the German language and Frisian local colour, so it lands best with Otto's fans and anyone curious about late-1980s German comedy. Stream Otto – The Alien from East Frisia (1989) online on iFILM.