Didi auf vollen Touren (1986)

German vehicle fanatic Dieter 'Didi' accepts to drive a truckload of waste barrels to a French dump site. Didi ignores the plant needs to dump toxic waste after a major incident, which made... See full summary »

Director:

Wigbert Wicker

Writers:

Felix Huby (screenplay), Christoph Treutwein (screenplay),

Stars:

Dieter Hallervorden, Bernard Menez, Pierre Tornade

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Dieter Hallervorden	...	Didi
Bernard Menez	...	Marcel
Pierre Tornade	...	Commissaire Bontemps
Hans Peter Hallwachs	...	Schulz
Gert Haucke	...	Grueter (as Gert Hauke)
Günther Ungeheuer	...	Direktor Müller
Siegfried Kernen	...	Tourist 'Schnulli'
Evelyn Gressmann	...	Touristin
Sepp Schauer	...	Polizist #1
Peter Kuhnert	...	Polizist #2
Patrick Paroux	...	Wirt (as Patrick Parroux)
Rainer Schmitt	...	Journalist
Astrid Jacob	...	Journalistin
Claude Evrard	...	Leon
Maïté Nahyr	...	Deponiechefin

Storyline

German vehicle fanatic Dieter 'Didi' accepts to drive a truckload of waste barrels to a French dump site. Didi ignores the plant needs to dump toxic waste after a major incident, which made the international news. But while the French site exploiter's agent Marcel believes it's Did's load, that's in fact a deliberately obvious diversion. Now everyone chases everyone else.

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Plot Keywords:

toxic waste | fire | truck | trucker | explosion | 

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Genres:

Comedy

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Details

Country:

West Germany

Language:

French German

Release Date:

27 November 1986 (West Germany)

Filming Locations:

Berlin, Germany

Company Credits

Production Co:

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

Technical Specs

Runtime:

92 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

During filming the actors spoke their native language, meaning the audio was recorded in French and German. This original recording is presumed lost. As the film was never sold to a French-speaking country and therefore never dubbed, nobody really wanted those recordings and they were probably thrown out with all other unneeded materials (like outtakes, deleted scenes etc.) when UFA cleared their vaults.

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Goofs

At the beginning of the film a barrel falls down and explodes. It is quite obvious that it's not the barrel exploding but the boxes beside the falling barrel.

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Connections

Edited into Dieter Hallervorden - Mit 70 hat man noch Träume! (2005)

User Reviews

AIMLESS AND WEARISOME

What? Auf vollen Touren? The truck Didi is driving may be, but the film surely is not. The comedy never gets of the ground and successful jokes are few and far between. It perhaps could have been a mild satire on (political) corruption concerning chemical waste disposal, but now it an aimless and wearisome farce.