Go Trabi Go (1991)

User Rating:

5.4/10   

Director:

Peter Timm

Writers:

Reinhard Klooss (writer)
Peter Timm (writer)

Release Date:

17 January 1991 (Germany)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

Family Struutz lives in Bitterfeld (GDR). After the fall of the wall, they take the opportunity to go on holiday with their car...

Plot Keywords:

Italy | Holiday | Car | Family Relationships | Germany

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Wolfgang Stumph	...	Udo Struutz
Claudia Schmutzler	...	Jacqueline Struutz
Marie Gruber	...	Rita Struutz
Dieter Hildebrandt	...	Kfz-Meister
Ottfried Fischer	...	Bernd Amberger
Diether Krebs	...	Fernfahrer
Konstantin Wecker	...	Playboy
Billie Zöckler	...	Gerda Amberger
Barbara Valentin	...	Frau Gamshuber
André Eisermann	...	Alfons Amberger
Monika Baumgartner	...	Verkäuferin
Rolando Belli
Lisa Bernardini
Alfons Biber
Astrid Boner

Country:

Germany

Language:

German

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Germany:o.Al.

Filming Locations:

Bitterfeld, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Company:

Bavaria Film

Trivia:

Because no one thought of shooting a 'Making of' or something similar, Wolfgang Stumph allowed the production company to use private video tapes he had shot on the set in 1990 for the "Behind the Scenes" material on the DVD release of this movie and its sequel.

Movie Connections:

Followed by Go Trabi Go 2 (1992)

Soundtrack:

Westward Ho

The path is the destination

"Go Trabi Go" is a movie that consists of two elements: It is the story of a travel, but also a comedy. The Italian landscapes and sights are shown in beautiful pictures when the trip of the Struuz' passes camping sites, nudist beaches (a new experience for the people from GDR), lakes and finally Rome. Their guidebook is a diary from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Mr. Struuz is German teacher), their car a Trabant. This typical Ossi-car is one of the funny elements. The owner of the car is the father, he loves his car (which he calls "Schorsch") and this leads to many funny moments. The main comical sources are the archetypes. All the wessi's clishés towards the ossis and vice versa are put together and packed into figures, situational humor and funny dialogues. The film has many highlights, when the society of German revue artists and comedians appear in the film (e.g. Diether Krebs telling the shocked Udo Struuz 109 jokes about Trabants). I enjoyed viewing the film and I think not only people with knowledge about the wessis and the ossis will do so, too. All in all a wonderful story about a family getting away from the ex-GDR to see how the world out there really is...