"Kleine Haie" is a German movie from 1992, so this one will have its 25th anniversary next year. It was written and directed by the very successful Sönke Wortmann and is relatively short at under 90 minutes even. It was a bit of a breakthrough film for the young Jürgen Vogel who plays the main character and he is joined by Kai Wiesinger and Gedeon Burkhard who play the people his character spends the most time with. If you look at the cast list, you will also find the names of Becker, Mendl, Rohde, Hansch, Kessler, Thomczyk and others who are certainly still known to German film buffs, even a quarter century later. This film actually received a good deal of awards for its cinematography, the three main actors and most of all it won Best Film at the German Film Awards, which baffles me as I never thought this was a particularly well-crafted or creative achievement. Okay, the story has a couple solid moments and it is a film where you can never expect which direction it is heading next, but this is not enough for the glories it received and I would call them undeserving. Road movie aspects are combined with romance, comedy, friendship and the attempts to succeed in life in terms of job. It is something that was done many times before and something that has been done many times afterward and many of these times, it turned out better in terms of quality than this film here. Wortmann has many better films under his belt and so does Vogel and also the other cast members I am sure. I give "Little Sharks" a thumbs-down. Not recommended.
Review of Little Sharks
