NVA () is a German comedy film released in 2005, that involves two friends who serve in the National People's Army of the former GDR (East Germany). It was directed by Leander HauÃÂmann, who â together with Thomas Brussig â also wrote the screenplay. The film caricatures the life of the National People's Army (abbreviated: NVA), in the final years of East Germany.
The film received mostly negative reception. Reviewers with Die Tageszeitung stated that HauÃÂmann shouldn't have turned the film into a light comedy, which the reviewer calling it "misleading" to not take on a serious tone and address the systematic abuse of conscripts. Another reviewr from Tagesspiegel stated that while the film was a comedy, the humour did not land and reiterated that the film also portrayed the NVA as too harmless.