Trabbi goes to Hollywood
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Trabbi Goes To Hollywood (English title: Driving Me Crazy) is a 1991 US comedy film directed by Jon Turteltaub
, starring Thomas Gottschalk
, Billy Dee Williams
, Dom DeLuise
, and James Tolkan
.
) attempts to flee across the East German borderline to the West
using his inventions, but constantly meets with failure. Finally, he constructs a gadget which actually works: a modified Trabant
with a motor running on turnip juice
, making it ultimately environmental, but which is still capable of attaining a speed of up to 250 kph. But by the time his invention is perfected, East and West Germany are reunited
, rendering the Trabbi's use as an escape vehicle obsolete.
stars telling the hope of all east German has after the Berlin Wall fall and the opportunity to reach new relationships with Western companies. The next part of the film focus in Gunther Schmidt ( Gottschalk) an East German inventor who development an car who only works with vegetables. Gunther member of a local band during the preparatives of his local East German birth town for receive the visit of an American tycoon John Mcready (George Kennedy) he receives a letter from BMW rejecting the project and band companion says to him that like another attempts to offer the idea to all European car manufacturers forget the idea. After the official reception Gunther reaches to Mcready and wonder him if in the United States his revolutionary car idea will reach success and Mcready invite him to go to the U.S. especially at the Los Angeles Automobile Festival and gives him a card if you need his help. With this idea Gunther leaves his hometown and in the moment one of the neighbours gives him a large sausage and she has a relative Ricki (Michelle Johnson) who lives there and if don´t have any trouble if decide to inn. Gunther arrives to the venue of the event but he had trouble with enter and reach to all car manufacturers because they reach and chat with Mr.B (Dom de Luise) a kind of car genius and says to all that he has develop a new car prototype. With the help of Max ( Billie Dee Williams) the valet who Gunther knows decide together to go with each manufacturers chairman to offer the idea. Desperate for find a new car like he promises , Mr B orders to one of his aide Vince (James Tolkan)to find one and presented it like Mr. B idea. During the search Vince sees the Trabant who Gunther brings from his East Germany hometown parked in the hotel where the auto show held. Driving in a freeway and for the less speed Vince operates a device developed by Gunther and produces that the Trabbi goes fast. So intrigated by the fact Vince with Mr B. decides to search and investigate the Trabbi motor and discovered that he only works with vegetables. Max says to Gunther that his Trabbi was stolen and decide to recover it.In his search he notices that Mr. B had it and summon a media conference where will launch the car like his own. Passing off as the Peugeout chairman with Ricki enters to Mr B mansion and says to all the media that car was his idea and immediately is expelled. Looking the card that John Mcready gave him he decided to visit him in his corporative offices for help and discover him that he wants to install a contaminated factory in his town and John tells that the only way to save his town is that he gives two million dollars money who gave to East Germany authorities to allow build the factory. Decide to recover his car and save his town Gunther with Max drives the car off in the Mr. B mansion and he decides not allow lose an amount of dollars who the manufacturers promises to give him with Vince starts a race chase in Los Angeles streets.Together go with them an American Motor Company executive with interest in the car who decides give four millions dollars for the rights to build the car. In a moment near to a defile Gunther with Max waiting to Ricki for decide the new ways to reach to the fabricants.The American Motors executives chats with them and offers the money but Gunther notices that Vince takes the Trabbi to defile and unsuccefully Gunther tries to rescue. The executive ask to Mr.B if he can make the car again and starts to cry. In that part Gunther get out of the defile says to the executive that he can build it and with the money save his hometown.
Jon Turteltaub
Jonathan Charles "Jon" Turteltaub is an American film director and producer. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University and the USC School of Cinematic Arts...
, starring Thomas Gottschalk
Thomas Gottschalk
Thomas Johannes Gottschalk is a German TV host. He is best-known for hosting the popular show Wetten, dass..?, which he has led to a huge success in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and South Tyrol.-Early life:...
, Billy Dee Williams
Billy Dee Williams
William December "Billy Dee" Williams, Jr. is an American actor, artist, singer, and writer.-Early life:Williams was born in New York City, New York, the son of Loretta...
, Dom DeLuise
Dom DeLuise
Dominick "Dom" DeLuise was an American actor, comedian, film director, television producer, chef, and author. He was the husband of actress Carol Arthur from 1965 until his death and the father of: actor, director, pianist, and writer Peter DeLuise; actor David DeLuise; and actor Michael DeLuise...
, and James Tolkan
James Tolkan
James S. Tolkan is an American actor, often cast as a strict, overbearing, bald-headed authority figure.-Personal life:He was born in Calumet, Michigan, the son of Ralph M. Tolkan, a cattle dealer, and attended the University of Iowa, Coe College, the Actors Studio and Eastern Arizona College...
.
Synopsis
The film's main protagonist is the young and eccentric inventor Gunther Schmidt, who (like many othersEscape attempts and victims of the inner German border
There were numerous escape attempts and victims of the inner German border during its 45 years of existence from 1945 to 1990.-Refugee flows and escape attempts:...
) attempts to flee across the East German borderline to the West
West Germany
West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....
using his inventions, but constantly meets with failure. Finally, he constructs a gadget which actually works: a modified Trabant
Trabant
The Trabant is a car that was produced by former East German auto maker VEB Sachsenring Automobilwerke Zwickau in Zwickau, Sachsen. It was the most common vehicle in East Germany, and was also exported to countries both inside and outside the communist bloc...
with a motor running on turnip juice
Biofuel
Biofuel is a type of fuel whose energy is derived from biological carbon fixation. Biofuels include fuels derived from biomass conversion, as well as solid biomass, liquid fuels and various biogases...
, making it ultimately environmental, but which is still capable of attaining a speed of up to 250 kph. But by the time his invention is perfected, East and West Germany are reunited
German reunification
German reunification was the process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany , and when Berlin reunited into a single city, as provided by its then Grundgesetz constitution Article 23. The start of this process is commonly referred by Germans as die...
, rendering the Trabbi's use as an escape vehicle obsolete.
stars telling the hope of all east German has after the Berlin Wall fall and the opportunity to reach new relationships with Western companies. The next part of the film focus in Gunther Schmidt ( Gottschalk) an East German inventor who development an car who only works with vegetables. Gunther member of a local band during the preparatives of his local East German birth town for receive the visit of an American tycoon John Mcready (George Kennedy) he receives a letter from BMW rejecting the project and band companion says to him that like another attempts to offer the idea to all European car manufacturers forget the idea. After the official reception Gunther reaches to Mcready and wonder him if in the United States his revolutionary car idea will reach success and Mcready invite him to go to the U.S. especially at the Los Angeles Automobile Festival and gives him a card if you need his help. With this idea Gunther leaves his hometown and in the moment one of the neighbours gives him a large sausage and she has a relative Ricki (Michelle Johnson) who lives there and if don´t have any trouble if decide to inn. Gunther arrives to the venue of the event but he had trouble with enter and reach to all car manufacturers because they reach and chat with Mr.B (Dom de Luise) a kind of car genius and says to all that he has develop a new car prototype. With the help of Max ( Billie Dee Williams) the valet who Gunther knows decide together to go with each manufacturers chairman to offer the idea. Desperate for find a new car like he promises , Mr B orders to one of his aide Vince (James Tolkan)to find one and presented it like Mr. B idea. During the search Vince sees the Trabant who Gunther brings from his East Germany hometown parked in the hotel where the auto show held. Driving in a freeway and for the less speed Vince operates a device developed by Gunther and produces that the Trabbi goes fast. So intrigated by the fact Vince with Mr B. decides to search and investigate the Trabbi motor and discovered that he only works with vegetables. Max says to Gunther that his Trabbi was stolen and decide to recover it.In his search he notices that Mr. B had it and summon a media conference where will launch the car like his own. Passing off as the Peugeout chairman with Ricki enters to Mr B mansion and says to all the media that car was his idea and immediately is expelled. Looking the card that John Mcready gave him he decided to visit him in his corporative offices for help and discover him that he wants to install a contaminated factory in his town and John tells that the only way to save his town is that he gives two million dollars money who gave to East Germany authorities to allow build the factory. Decide to recover his car and save his town Gunther with Max drives the car off in the Mr. B mansion and he decides not allow lose an amount of dollars who the manufacturers promises to give him with Vince starts a race chase in Los Angeles streets.Together go with them an American Motor Company executive with interest in the car who decides give four millions dollars for the rights to build the car. In a moment near to a defile Gunther with Max waiting to Ricki for decide the new ways to reach to the fabricants.The American Motors executives chats with them and offers the money but Gunther notices that Vince takes the Trabbi to defile and unsuccefully Gunther tries to rescue. The executive ask to Mr.B if he can make the car again and starts to cry. In that part Gunther get out of the defile says to the executive that he can build it and with the money save his hometown.
Cast
- Thomas GottschalkThomas GottschalkThomas Johannes Gottschalk is a German TV host. He is best-known for hosting the popular show Wetten, dass..?, which he has led to a huge success in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and South Tyrol.-Early life:...
... Gunther Schmidt - Michelle JohnsonMichelle Johnson (actress)Michelle Johnson is an American actress, probably best known for her role in Blame It on Rio.-Career:Director Stanley Donen signed her, as a 17-year-old, to appear as Michael Caine's love interest in the romantic comedy film Blame It on Rio...
... Ricki - Billy Dee WilliamsBilly Dee WilliamsWilliam December "Billy Dee" Williams, Jr. is an American actor, artist, singer, and writer.-Early life:Williams was born in New York City, New York, the son of Loretta...
... Max - Dom DeLuiseDom DeLuiseDominick "Dom" DeLuise was an American actor, comedian, film director, television producer, chef, and author. He was the husband of actress Carol Arthur from 1965 until his death and the father of: actor, director, pianist, and writer Peter DeLuise; actor David DeLuise; and actor Michael DeLuise...
... Mr. B - James TolkanJames TolkanJames S. Tolkan is an American actor, often cast as a strict, overbearing, bald-headed authority figure.-Personal life:He was born in Calumet, Michigan, the son of Ralph M. Tolkan, a cattle dealer, and attended the University of Iowa, Coe College, the Actors Studio and Eastern Arizona College...
... Vince - George KennedyGeorge KennedyGeorge Harris Kennedy, Jr. is an American actor who has appeared in over 200 film and television productions. He is perhaps most familiar as the convict Dragline in Cool Hand Luke , airline troubleshooter Joe Patroni in the Airport series of disaster movies from the 1970s and...
... John McCrady