Go Trabi Go
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| Original title | Go Trabi Go |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1991 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Peter Timm |
| script |
Reinhard Klooss , Peter Timm |
| production | Reinhard Klooss |
| music | Ekki Stein |
| camera | Axel Block |
| cut | Christel Suckow |
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Go Trabi Go (reference title: Go Trabi Go - The Saxons are coming ) is a German comedy film by Peter Timm from 1991 . The sequel Go Trabi Go 2 - That was the wild east came into cinemas in 1992.
action
In the summer of 1990, the year of “ reunification ”, the family man and German teacher Udo Struutz set out with his wife Rita and their seventeen-year-old daughter Jacqueline to travel in the footsteps of Goethe from Bitterfeld to Naples in his sky-blue Trabant “Schorsch” . Goethe's Italian journey serves Udo as a route description, and on the trunk lid is the Italian saying reported by Goethe: See Naples and die.
However, the ride becomes a turbulent adventure. A stopover takes place at the western relatives in Regensburg . After numerous car breakdowns, overnight stays in dubious places and a ride on the truck of a truck (who tells 118 Trabi jokes) over the Brenner, they come closer to Italy. Their bikes are stolen on Lake Garda.
In Rome, Udo's borrowed camera (“grandpa's new Japanese”) is stolen, whereupon Rita and Jacqueline start pursuing the thief. With success, they not only take away the thief's camera, but also his other loot. Since they cannot make themselves understood to the police and are shown by the police officers in front of the door and Udo can no longer be found, both of them stay in a luxurious hotel with the stolen money. Meanwhile, Udo wanders around town with the Trabi, e.g. B. past the Colosseum, and finally falls asleep behind the wheel in a parking lot. Young Italian women finally wake him up to celebrate with him. In the overloaded Trabi, they accidentally drive down a flight of stairs, causing the duroplastic paneling parts to fall off. At an Italian scrap yard, the Trabi is quickly completed with sheet metal and body parts from western car types. The next morning at 11 o'clock, Udo, Rita and Jacqueline meet at the Spanish Steps , where Udo had casually mentioned the day before that they would be sitting there “with espresso and croissants” the next morning.
The family goes on to Naples together. When they want to take a photo of themselves and the now colorful Schorsch with Vesuvius in the background, the Trabi rolls down a cliff and loses its roof. The Struutz family finally set off on their return journey with Schorsch in a convertible . Father Struutz learns that his wife is pregnant again.
background
The until then relatively unknown Dresden cabaret artist Wolfgang Stumph was discovered by the director Peter Timm during a guest performance in Munich. The shooting started on August 14, 1990 and took place until October 1990 in the Bavaria film studios as well as at original locations in Bitterfeld , Munich , in the Gulf of Salerno , on Lake Garda and in Rome . In Rome, many scenes were filmed around the Piazza del Popolo ; on the Pincio hill above the Piazza del Popolo, for example, the hotel balcony scene was created. Udo's monologue at dawn was filmed on the Gianicolo in Piazzale Giuseppe Garibaldi . His previous sleeping place is in reality not in Rome, but in the Piazzetta Santa Maria Calchera in Brescia .
Claudia Schmutzler , who plays the seventeen-year-old daughter in the film, was already 24 years old during the shooting. The age difference to her film mother Marie Gruber was only eleven years.
Up to 13 Trabant vehicles were used for the film. The fitter Hans-Jürgen Kuhn bought the vehicles and prepared them for the requirements of the film. For some stunt scenes, the Trabant 1.1 four-stroke model, which only came onto the market in 1990 , was used instead of the Trabant 601 ; this vehicle is now in Kuhn's private possession. Another Trabant, which is said to have been used in the film, is now in the North Sea Auto Museum in Norddeich . The MDR listed twelve differently prepared Trabant vehicles with their respective uses on its website:
| designation | description | Use in film |
|---|---|---|
| "Bitterfeld Trabi" | Original Trabant | Filming in the GDR |
| "Munich Trabi" | Original Trabant with red bumper | Filming in Munich |
| "Junkyard Trabi" | Trabant with iron reinforcements | Junkyard scene in Munich (at the crane claw) |
| "Stunt Trabi 1" | Trabant with reinforced wheel suspension, locked differential and welded gearbox | Serpentine ride on two wheels (performed by the French James Bond stuntman Gilbert Bataille) |
| "Stunt Trabi 2" | Trabant with additionally welded tubular frame | Jump through the billboard in Rome |
| "Stunt Trabi 3" | Trabant with additionally welded tubular frame | Replacement vehicle for "Stunt-Trabi 2" in the event that the recording needs to be repeated |
| "Stunt Trabi 4" | Trabant with built-in mechanics to remove the bonnet and fenders | Scene after jumping through the billboard in which the Trabant is racing down several stairs |
| "Canary Trabi" | Trabant with yellow R4 hood, dark blue Kadett fenders and Ferrari badge | Junkyard scene in Rome |
| "Reverse Trabi" | Trabant with two steerable rear axles | Reversing through a serpentine road (steered by the stuntman Francois Doge from the trunk) |
| "Trabi convertible" | Trabant with a yellow hood without a roof | Final scene in Naples |
| "Wiggerl-Trabi" | Trabant with special camera mounts and removable windows and doors | Recordings inside the vehicle |
| "Low loader Trabi" | Trabant without wheels and exhaust; mounted on a low loader | Driving recordings |
Go Trabi Go was released in German cinemas on January 17, 1991 as one of the first films about the time of reunification and was an audience success in the new and old federal states. With 1,464,389 viewers, it was the second most successful German feature film of 1991. Cabaret artist Wolfgang Stumph became known throughout Germany overnight thanks to the film. On July 23, 1994, the film comedy was shown by ARD for the first time on German television.
For the 25th anniversary of the shooting, the MDR produced the documentary Go Trabi Go Forever , which was first broadcast on September 28, 2015. Wolfgang Stumph meets his fellow actors Claudia Schmutzler, Ottfried Fischer, Billie Zöckler and Konstantin Wecker as well as director Peter Timm and producer Reinhard Klooss at the original locations of the film. He also visited his old colleague André Eisermann on May 16, 2015 during festival rehearsals in Bad Hersfeld .
Reviews
"Comedy that all too soon gets lost in an inconsistent potpourri of cabaret sketches and stereotypical plot threads."
"Can a road movie be German?"
"[S] tets bravely chug this very gentle comedy."
"The three main actors deliver lively performances, but the real star is the Trabant."
Awards
In 1991, Go Trabi Go was nominated for the German Film Prize in the Best Fiction Film category.
theatre
On September 14, 2018, a theater adaptation premiered at Comödie Dresden after the film.
Web links
- Go Trabi Go to the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Go Trabi Go at filmportal.de
- Go Trabi Go. In: prisma.de. prisma-Verlag , accessed on October 3, 2017 .
- Pictures of the film on cinema.de
- Goethe's original text of the Italian trip in the Gutenberg-DE project
Individual evidence
- ↑ As German reunification , not only the event of accession according to Article 23 , but also the process of the "turning point" is considered, with the opening of the " Iron Curtain ", the introduction of the D-Mark in the GDR and the German victory in football -WM in Italy ( sic !, See also Un'estate italiana (An Italian Summer) )
- ↑ geschichtenvonunterwegs.de: See Naples and die
- ↑ Torsten Wahl: Stumph and Schorsch are back. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, September 28, 2015, accessed on January 21, 2016 .
- ↑ a b TV documentary Go Trabi Go Forever , MDR 2015, director: Jana von Rautenberg
- ↑ Ulrike Merkel: Two Thuringians lend Go-Trabi-Go- “Stumphi” their Trabi for a new documentary about the cult film . In: otz.de . June 17, 2015. Accessed June 20, 2015.
- ↑ Petra Steps: Stumpi visits the original film Trabi in Kuno's garage . In: Freiepresse.de . June 16, 2015. Accessed June 20, 2015.
- ↑ cf. automuseum-nordsee.de
- ↑ Happy Birthday Trabi: Go Trabi Go. MDR.de, accessed on November 11, 2017 .
- ↑ http://www.insidekino.com/Djahr/D1991.htm
- ↑ Pictures . In: facebook.com/badhersfelderfestspiele . Retrieved June 20, 2015.
- ↑ Go Trabi Go. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ cf. cinema.de
- ↑ cf. spiegel.de
- ↑ "All three leading actors turn in lively performances, but the real star is the Trabant." see. nytimes.com