Role Games (Rubbeldiekatz) is a German romantic comedy directed by Detlev Buck on an idea by Anika Decker. Having surpassed the two million admissions to German cinema at its national release at the end of 2011, the film had very little publicity outside the German-speaking countries. It addresses the themes of transvestition and film in a film, in this case a film about the Nazis shot in Germany by an American director. Several critics compared Role Games to the American film Tootsie,.