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Brothers Arne (Matthias Koeberlin) and Malte (Matthias Schweighöfer) scratch a marginal living running a car breaking business in Hamburg; they live on the site, which they inherited from their parents. One day Malte finds an abandoned baby in a telephone box. He decides to look after it while they find the Mother, but Arne doesn't like the idea, and only goes along with it grudgingly.
Eventually they find the Mother, Belinda (played by Marek Harloff, a male actor), working in a clip joint in the red light district, and Arne falls in love with her. They decide to work on Belinda to get her to take the baby back, and they give her a job as a nanny to it at their house. They tell her the baby belongs to a distant relative who has now died.
The scheme works in part, but when the boys decide to bring things to a head by saying that they are going to put the baby in an orphanage, Belinda runs away with the baby. But now they worry because she doesn't know it's her own baby, so they have to get her back. They manage this (by an unlikely arrangement) but Arne is shattered when he sees that Belinda is actually a transsexual. He eventually comes round and they find a way to keep the baby for all three of them, not entirely legally, and they all lived happily ever after.
As part of the search, Arne went back to the clip joint looking for Belinda. The girl behind the bar is Louise, played by Stefan Merka (whom we had already seen in the dressing room as Udo). Both Marek Harloff and Stefan Merka have plenty of other credits, but nothing else in transgender work.
Despite some improbable plot elements I found the film moving and entertaining.
The title means "Baby Business is a Man's Thing". The imdb says that it has an aka, Harte Jungs und weiche Mädchen -- a title so far away from the actual plot that I don't believe it was ever used.
HF June 2001
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