Three Men in the Snow absolutely should not work, or at least not as well as it does.
Among other things, it starts quite slowly and with way too much needless detail, and it's very broad and often quite clumsy in its humor, too much of which is little more than men repeatedly laughing really hard for a long, long time. But I'll be damned if it's not one of the most charming, purely enjoyable movies I've seen in a long time, a fact which rests entirely upon the charisma of Paul Dahlke and Claus Biederstaedt and their wildly convincing, transcendently joyful chemistry.
Dahlke plays Geheimrat Eduard Schlüter, a vaguely eccentric multimillionaire who owns pretty much everything, including a newspaper.…