Oh Boy is a 2012 German comedy film directed by Jan-Ole Gerster available on DVD. It is in black-and-white. It is the director's debut film, and thesis project for the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin.

Niko is in his late 20s and recently dropped out of college. He lives for the moment, drifting through the streets of Berlin, observing the people around him with curiosity as they manage their daily lives, oblivious to his own growing status as an outsider. One day everything changes, and Niko is forced to confront the consequences of his inaction, when his girlfriend dumps him and his father cuts off his allowance. Meanwhile, his new neighbour tries to get to know him and a peculiar beauty from his past confronts him with the emotional wounds he inflicted. And all Niko wants is a decent cup of coffee. “Do you know the feeling when people around you seem to behave in a strange way?” Niko wonders. “And the longer you think about it, the more it dawns on you that it's not other people who are strange, but yourself?”

Winner of 6 German Film Awards, including best Film, Best Director and Best Actor, OH BOY is the debut feature from Jan Ole Gerster, an exciting new voice in German Cinema.

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Oh Boy Movie Reviews

“More than just a hit comedy… Gerster's chief achievement here is to lend an appealing comic flavor to a familiar trope from modernist European literature – the existential distress of an abject young person living on the edge of society – without betraying its serious origins.” Lynden Barber, SBS

“With its black-and-white cityscape and snappy soundtrack of New Orleans-style jazz, the comedy OH BOY brings to mind vintage Woody Allen.” The Hollywood Reporter

“Fun, breezy and energetic, just like Niko and the generation he represents.” Thomas Caldwell, Cinema Autopsy