Didi - Der Doppelgänger (1984)

A wealthy businessman and the owner of a rundown pub share one thing in common - they look like identical twins! When the businessman hears of a plot against him, he hires the pub owner as ... See full summary »

Director:

Reinhard Schwabenitzky

Writers:

Christian Rateuke, Hartmann Schmige,

Stars:

Dieter Hallervorden, Tilo Prückner, Hans-Joachim Grubel

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Dieter Hallervorden	...	Hans Immer / Bruno Koob
Tilo Prückner	...	Bazille
Hans-Joachim Grubel	...	Otto (as Hans Joachim Grubel)
Götz Kauffmann	...	Heinrich (as Götz Kauffman)
Gert Burkard	...	von Pösel (as Gerhard Burkard)
Elfi Eschke	...	Sylvia Kranich
Arnold Jürging	...	Eck (as Arno Jürging)
Karl Schulz	...	Reinhold
Manfred Lehmann	...	Charly
Ruth-Maria Kubitschek	...	Heidi (as Ruth Maria Kubitschek)
Barbara Nielsen	...	Molly
Winfried Glatzeder	...	Pete
Peter Döring	...	Geiger (as Peter Doering)
Maximilian Rüthlein	...	Kogelfranz
Michael Gempart	...	Holstein

Storyline

A wealthy businessman and the owner of a rundown pub share one thing in common - they look like identical twins! When the businessman hears of a plot against him, he hires the pub owner as a decoy. However, the pub owner is accident prone and causes more trouble than he is worth. An action-packed, physical comedy.

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Plot Keywords:

class differences | role reversal | criminal gang | kidnapping | satire | 

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Genres:

Comedy

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Details

Country:

West Germany

Language:

German English

Release Date:

17 February 1984 (West Germany)

Also Known As:

Non-Stop Trouble with My Double

Filming Locations:

Berlin, Germany

Company Credits

Production Co:

Universum Film (UFA), Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

96 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Did You Know?

Goofs

The position of the spoon on the floor changes before it's been picked up again.

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Connections

Referenced in Bang Boom Bang - Ein todsicheres Ding (1999)

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Soundtracks

"The Stars and Stripes Forever"
Written by John Philip Sousa

User Reviews

One of the best German comedy's ever

I absolutely agree with Bjoern Kahlenberg's comment on this film. But unfortunately, no-one who's not speaking German will ever understand the humor of this film, or find anything funny about it.

Now that the film is finally published on DVD, I was able to watch it with the English-dubbed voices. The dubbed version doesn't only suffer from maybe the most uninspired dubbing-speakers ever. No, the worst thing is, that the English text doesn't't have any similarities to the German content. And so absolutely every gag, especially those lines me and my friends quote from time to time, is destroyed. Too sad, it's not only the "play-on-words"-lines. If you can't speak or at last understand German, please don't watch this movie. You'd get a absolutely wrong impression of German sense of humor. Well, maybe you can watch it without sound and laugh about the slapstick.