Super jam
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Super jam |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1991 |
| length | 77 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Manfred Stelzer |
| script |
Gerd Weiß Achim Konejung Klaus Pohl Horst Schroth Manfred Stelzer |
| production | Richard Claus |
| music | Piet Klocke |
| camera | Frans Bromet |
| cut | Peter R. Adam |
| occupation | |
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Superstau is a German comedy by Manfred Stelzer from 1991, produced by Bavaria Film . The social satire plays with numerous clichés and stereotypes about Germans and their relationship to one another and to their vacation trip.
action
Germany shortly after reunification: The first big wave of travel during the summer vacation is imminent and the motorways are hopelessly overcrowded. During a traffic jam on a section of the autobahn in Bavaria, the most diverse, heavily exaggerated and clichéd characters from all over Germany meet.
The eternally nagging, self-righteous Bavarian Ludwig is out and about with his patient wife Maria and his daughter Steffi in a luxurious Hymer motorhome , equipped with every little detail, and uses a video camera to record the crimes of alleged traffic hooligans as "evidence". His only worries are his bowel movements and the risk of getting caught in a traffic jam, but thanks to his motorhome he feels prepared for anything. The choleric miner Hermann from Gelsenkirchen in the Ruhrpott is in the Audi 100 C2 with his wife Ilse and his son Boris on the way to Corsica . His biggest problem is the time pressure and the constant fear of missing the ferry to Corsica. Fritzie, a hairdresser from East Germany , has to travel with his wife Viola and her parents in a Trabi because their VW Golf has already given up the ghost at home. They are ripped off by Westermann, a windy business man in a Porsche 911 convertible , who swallows a box of Club Cola from them and later sells the bottles at exorbitant prices.
When stuck in traffic parties after hours of hard seats are starting to get comfortable around their vehicles around, the two play CB Radio "Commander" ( Ford Granada ) and "Mustang" ( Jeep ) on to law enforcement officers, share the other plots to and regulate the passage to the emergency in the forest. The two drunken Hamburg truck drivers Hinnerk and Clars are desperately trying to find something alcoholic to drink. Others grill or play badminton in the middle of the stuck cars or pass the time with a shepherd's hour in the suspended vehicle.
The mood among the hungry and thirsty waiting people is becoming increasingly irritable. Finally, a group breaks into Ludwig's mobile home and assaults Ludwig's ample supply of beer and the well-stocked refrigerator. Meanwhile, Hermann's wife Ilse flirts with the Volvo driver Bruno, and the Pippig family escapes by dismantling part of the guardrails and changing over the green strip to the opposite lane in order to go on vacation again to Lake Balaton . In the late evening the traffic jam finally resolves and the journey south can continue. Three weeks later, the protagonists meet again when they are stuck in a traffic jam on the way back.
Location
Since the film takes place for the most part on the autobahn and there are usually no real autobahns available for filming, a three-kilometer-long section of the autobahn south of the former Dreilinden checkpoint in Berlin , which was closed in 1969 after the new transit route went into operation , was used as the location . This old section of the autobahn was in the border area during the division of Germany and was therefore almost completely untouched when shooting began. Guard rails and an emergency telephone were installed for the film . In later years, the first episodes of the RTL series Alarm für Cobra 11 were created on this stretch of motorway , before the road was dismantled for nature conservation reasons and the area was renatured. You can also see the A8 motorway near the Walserberg border crossing, in the area of the Piding exit with a view of the Untersberg.
criticism
"Although some situation comedy cannot be denied irony, the film loses itself through gross oversubscription, especially since the hook of the story does not have the staying power for full-length entertainment."
Web links
- Superstau in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Super jam at filmportal.de
- Super jam at crew united
Individual evidence
- ↑ Super traffic jam. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 24, 2017 .