One Day in Europe tells four tales of robberies in Europe on the day of the European Cup final in Moscow. The tales are set in Moscow, Turkey, Spain and Berlin and feature tourists abroad such as an Englishwoman, French street performers, a suicidal Hungarian pilgrim and a dishonest German tourist. The tales all happen around the football as a backdrop and the obvious opportunity is to look at national differences across the continent.

Hannes Stoehr films the tales with a slightly detached and whimsical tone, but avoids the pitfalls of lazy stereotypes which lie in wait for such a project as this. It does verge close to cliché however with some of the characters - an uptight English woman, dodgy Russians, depressive Slavs and ultra laid back Spaniards. The tourists either are robbed through their naivete or try to fake robberies for the insurance. There is little to be learned from their plights and no pan-European message, other than the importance of never upsetting a Turkish policeman and make sure you bribe the right Russian, if it isn't easy for the Spanish police don't bother and Turks don't look like Russians.

The film has little ambition beyond this - a light diversion. There is a fine score mixing different countries music and the film does not overstay its welcome.

It won't change your life, but you will learn that Finnish is the closest language to Hungarian and the Russian word for Tea.