Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
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Wolfgang Stumph | ... | Udo Struutz |
Marie Gruber | ... | Rita Struutz | |
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Claudia Schmutzler | ... | Jacqueline Struutz |
Rolf Zacher | ... | Charlie | |
Uwe Friedrichsen | ... | Bürgermeister Kuhn | |
Dietmar Schönherr | ... | Gustav Hohenstein | |
Jochen Busse | ... | Direktor | |
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Gunther Emmerlich | ... | 'Siegfried' |
Wolfgang Lippert | ... | Herrenausstatter | |
Günter Junghans | ... | Schulz | |
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Detlef Rothe | ... | Müller |
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Günter Schubert | ... | Meier |
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Tony Stevens | ... | William Buck |
Heinrich Schafmeister | ... | Fricke | |
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Gerit Kling | ... | Diana |
The Struutz family return from holidays after the fall of the Berlin Wall to find their home being bulldozed to make way for a golf course. It gets worse when Udo inherits a nearly-bankrupt garden gnome factory and the corrupt mayor starts chasing Udo's wife. Salvation is sought through the dubious influence of the charismatic Charlie, whose half-baked philosophies ("Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose") are based on tired old Western rock songs and a minimal grasp of Zen. Written by David Kinne <davros@gargoyle.apana.org.au>
GO TRABI GO - das war zer wilde Osten is the follow up to the popular German GO TRABI GO.
The East German family comes back to find their country re-unified, their flat flattened and themselves heir to a garden gnome factory.
We get dad's US trip, flavoured condoms, skinheads and the daughter and her better shaped friend in skating outfits showing up in a Pigalle bar, while mum is romanced by a crooked official.
This routine sequel is a part of European pop culture which didn't mean all that much outside its country of origin first time and is all but forgotten now.