"Lothar Lambert is a maverick who has created a one-man school of Berlin filmmaking: the 'no-budget' film, also known as the 'Kleenex' movie, inexpensive enough to be dispensable but too tough to be disposable.... His cinema is inhabited by searchers, primarily but not exclusively homosexual, ingenuous and perplexed, who attempt with varying degrees of success to come to terms with their sexual and emotional longings. Lambert's protagonists are basically good people who, in their confusion, do not quite lose their dignity; he never condescends to his characters or treats them as aberrant.... (In his films) the narrative really takes shape on the editing table where Lambert locates the real adventure in filmmaking. The first film Lambert edited himself was 1 Berlin-Harlem, a fiction around an American soldier whom he had earlier befriended and whom he asked to play the lead. With mock dispassion 1 Berlin-Harlem describes the dispiriting months between a black G.I.'s discharge and his reluctant return to the United States. Trying not to be diminished by the social, sexual and racial prejudices circumscribing him, he explodes in a rage that turns murderous. The narrative is refractory, but it does allow the G.I. a tour of marginal Berlin." Laurence Kardish, "Berlin and Film"