This moody, jazzy, monochrome vignette about a young man failing (among other things) to get a cup of coffee in Berlin scooped numerous awards in its native Germany.

Tom Schilling is convincingly bedraggled as the aimless slacker who stumbles from one dourly comical situation to another: an unwelcome encounter with a frustrated neighbour; a game of golf with his overpowering father; a performance-art nightmare with a former classmate.

Around the edges of his amblings, older men hold forth on the guilty legacy of the second world war, while a screen actor in Nazi uniform pantomimes stricken, sentimental regret.

It's a slight but sometimes insightful affair – easy on the eye and the ear, occasionally straining to support its more heavyweight thematic baggage.