Details

Release year: 1986

Storyline

German vehicle fanatic Dieter 'Didi' accepts to drive a truckload of waste barrels to a French dump site. Didi ignores the plant needs to dump toxic waste after a major incident, which made the international news. But while the French site exploiter's agent Marcel believes it's Did's load, that's in fact a deliberately obvious diversion. Now everyone chases everyone else.

Top credits

Directors

Wigbert Wicker

Writers

Cast

Dieter Hallervorden — Didi
Bernard Menez — Marcel
Pierre Tornade — Commissaire Bontemps
Hans Peter Hallwachs — Schulz

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Did you know

• During filming the actors spoke their native language, meaning the audio was recorded in French and German. This original recording is presumed lost. As the film was never sold to a French-speaking country and therefore never dubbed, nobody really wanted those recordings and they were probably thrown out with all other unneeded materials (like outtakes, deleted scenes etc.) when UFA cleared their vaults.

• This film was one of the most successful comedies of 1986 in West Germany.

• Didi's eye-catching self-made truck is a visually upgraded Iveco Magirus 232 D two-axle truck. Originally, the vehicle was a tipper.