Big Mäc (film)

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Movie
Original title Big Mac
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1985
length 86 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Sigi Rothemund
script Siggi Götz ,
Franz Seitz ,
Werner Schlierf
production Franz Seitz
music Robert Pferdmenges
camera Frank Bruhne
cut Norbert Herzner
occupation

Big Mäc (TV title Heiße Ovens in Afrika ) is a German road movie from 1985 in which Thomas Gottschalk was the main actor.

action

Bernhard “Big Mäc” Maurer, ex- motorcycle freak and bored piano teacher, is voted the “perfect motorcyclist” by the motorcycle magazine after his resignation as a music teacher at a Munich high school. He is promised a bonus of 50,000 dollars if he manages to beat a Japanese team in an adventure rally from the Zugspitze to Kilimanjaro. Maurer agrees and chooses his young neighbor Max as the second man, the technician. Max, for whom a training position is concerned, injured himself shortly before the start of the rally and had to sit out. Without Maurer's knowledge, Max's almost identical-looking sister, Maxi, takes on the role of the boy.

Maurer and Maxi fight for victory on a breakneck tour through Austria via Greece and into the African desert. The fact that the Japanese can win the first three stages is not least due to Maurer's love for his attractive Japanese competitor, who is able to trick him again and again.

As the finale approaches, there is turbulence. By chance, Maurer learns that Max is actually Maxi. Maxi leaves, insulted, and threatens to return to Germany. At the same time, the BMW machine is stolen. And when a technician from the Japanese team finally mixes sleeping pills into Maurer's cocktail, which the Japanese driver accidentally drinks from, events precipitate.

backgrounds

  • The film was shot in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Istanbul, Cairo and Nairobi.
  • After its first broadcast on February 4, 1989 on ARD, the film was never shown on television again and is still one of Thomas Gottschalk's lesser-known films.
  • Much of the film music was composed especially for the film, but some pieces came from the Lisa film production archive and had already been used in other films.

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