Didi in full swing
Didi in full swing is a German comedy film by director Wigbert Wicker from 1986 with Dieter Hallervorden .
action
The warehouse worker Didi , who worked for many years at the company headquarters of the haulier Grueter , now finally wants to fulfill his great dream: as a truck driver with his own truck, which he built using spare parts from Grueter's warehouse. The driving test required for this at the beginning of the film turns out to be quite turbulent, as the examiner prefers to watch a football game with headphones and a portable television. Believing that the examiner was watching him on video, Didi misinterpreted his game comments as instructions, followed them exactly, regardless of the regular course of the road or oncoming traffic - and at the end of the turbulent journey, the driver examiner, who was still distracted, signed the driver's license.
At the same time, highly explosive toxic waste drums with cyanmesytyloxide are loaded in a plant of the industrial group Chemie AG , with the crane driver also watching the soccer game. When a goal falls, it performs a careless mistake with joy, causing a barrel to fall to the ground and explode. In order to keep the media hype as low as possible, CEO Müller entrusts his department head Schulz with the matter. Schulz then pressures Grueter to secretly transport 50 toxic waste barrels to a landfill in France. Since he no longer has free drivers, Grueter falls back on Didi and promises him a future equal partnership in the company. Believing that he only transports used oil, Didi takes over the delivery. At the same time, Schulz informed the press about the transport of toxic waste to France. So startled, the responsible French minister mobilized the police, after which the dumb Commissioner Bontemps ("It's me who asks the questions here! ") And others. a. monitored the target landfill.
In view of the police presence, Marcel , an employee of the said landfill, misinterprets it to the effect that one has come across the waste transport and adapts Didi and his truck. At first, there is strong antipathy between Didi and Marcel, who appears as a wannabe Casanova, as Marcel leaves Didi in ignorance of the charge. He soon had doubts about his assignment: First he was turned away with his load in one landfill after the other, then two pedantic motorcycle policemen on Bontemps' orders made life difficult for him and Marcel, and finally Marcel tried more than once to drive the tractor-trailer to kidnap. Didi finally succeeds in coaxing the truth from Marcel by means of a risky driving style: Didi is traveling with highly explosive toxic waste, and Grueter has passed all the responsibility on to him.
Driven into a corner, Didi and Marcel pull themselves together to somehow get rid of the load. When passing through a small mountain village, one of the barrels becomes independent and rolls into a bistro . At this very moment, the owner of the restaurant connects a gas bottle, which detonates when a cigarette is dropped carelessly. As a result, Didi and Marcel believe that their barrel - as expected - triggered the explosion. The recent media hype in this regard makes company boss Müller doubt Schulz's activities. But he explains to his boss: Didi actually only transports used oil. The lie about the supposed toxic waste was a ruse to put the press on the tractor-trailer and to distract from Chemie AG. Schulz needs the resulting time (in this case another 24 hours) to load the actual poison barrels onto a ship and take them out of the country across the Rhine .
To ensure that the diversionary maneuver continues, Schulz drives to France to continue to protect Didi's truck from being accessed by the police and the press. So he fakes a construction site and leads the police around Commissioner Bontemps to a farm. Despite everything, Didi and Marcel have an accident with the truck when they try to evade a police check and fall down a slope. Schulz then reschedules in order to gain even more time: He informs the police of Didi and Marcel's whereabouts, after which Bontemps arrests them both and later wants to present the supposed poison barrels to the media and the minister. But here, too, Schulz beats him by having the oil drums transported away.
The embarrassed Bontemps sees only one way of cleaning up in the face of the media bankruptcy: he instructs his motorcycle cops to "unintentionally" release Didi and Marcel, which works after initial difficulties. In this way, Bontemps hopes that they will both lead him to the missing barrels. Didi and Marcel actually go on a search, but only come across Schulz in a wine cellar, who locks them both up here, tries to drown them in red wine in a press and explains the truth. Ultimately, Didi and Marcel manage to escape from the cellar.
Both get on Didi's truck and, pursued by Bontemps and his police force, drive to the Rhine, which flows near the border, where they find the toxic waste ship. In a daring stunt Didi arrives with the tractor on a barge near the shore, which is torn loose by the force and driven into the course of the toxic waste ship. The freighter is forced to stop and can eventually be arrested by the police. This makes the toxic waste scandal public and finally cleared it up. At the end, you learn that Commissioner Bontemps has received an award, Didi and Marcel set up their own haulage company and that Chemie AG in the form of Müller and Schulz received a fine. The toxic waste barrels ultimately disappear without a trace when Germany and France want to have them disposed of in cooperation ...
background
- At the time of the film, society had developed from a pure belief in progress in the time of the economic miracle to a critical approach that had matured through numerous incidents and insights. The scandal surrounding the disappearance of the dioxin barrels from Seveso also fell in the years surrounding the film . Against this background, the film can be seen very differently, as many parallels emerge.
- At the time, films with environmental issues tended to instigate fear and mostly spread a paralyzing apocalyptic mood. In this film Dieter Hallervorden succeeded in implementing a serious topic in a positive, funny and happy way. As is often the case in his works, it is also emphasized here that each individual can achieve a lot if he only believes in it, regardless of his or her starting position.
- The theme song of the film is called Crime on the highway and was sung by the film composer Uwe Borgward. There was also a German version called Vollgas ins Chaos , which the main actor Dieter Hallervorden sang himself.
- Didi's eye-catching self-made truck is a visually enhanced two-axle truck of the Iveco Magirus 232 D type . Originally, the vehicle was a tipper.
synchronization
Since the film was a co-production, the French actors (as well as some German actors) had to be dubbed.
| character | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Marcel | Bernard Menez | Wolfgang Draeger |
| Commissaire Bontemps | Pierre Tornade | Wolfgang Völz |
| Policeman 1 | Sepp Schauer | Rainer Brandt |
| Policeman 2 | Peter Kuhnert | Hermann Ebeling |
| host | Patrik Paroux | Friedrich G. Beckhaus |
| French minister | Michel Bertay | Friedrich Schönfelder |
| Chemist | Hubert Saint-Macary | Michael Christian |
| Leon | Claude Evrard | Arnold Marquis |
Reviews
"Stringing together situation gossip (...). Fooling about current problems of chemical pollution in the convulsive Hallervorden style. "
DVD release
The film was released on DVD on July 18, 2005 by Turbine-Medien . There is also a soundtrack in Spanish on this DVD . Furthermore, a limited edition of 9999 pieces was published, which also has an English soundtrack and a maxi CD with the soundtrack of the film as well as additional extras.
Web links
- Didi at full speed in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Didi at full speed at Filmportal.de
- Didi in full swing in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Didi in full swing. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 21, 2017 .