What if your remote control could literally put you IN the movie?
Movie fan Mike has invented a machine with which he is able to take part in every movie which is currently running on his video tape recorder. But he and his friend Tommy are watched while trying out this new device and soon two electronic companies are on their trail to discover the secret of this invention.
Practical Effects
Janky homemade movie-jumping machine aesthetics
Acting
Gottschalk and Krüger's chaotic buddy energy
Director
Sigi Rothemund
Thomas Gottschalk
Tommy
Mike Krüger
Mike
Anja Kruse
Linda
Sylvia Engelmann
Tommys Freundin
Ankie Lau
Ling Ling
Kurt Weinzierl
Trainer / Sheriff / Archäologe / Louis XIV. / Pianist
Gerd Baltus
Direktor Kappellusch
Eiji Kusuhara
Werner Kreindl
Kommissar
Jochen Busse
Zeitungsleser
Udo Kier
Graf Frackstein
Thea Gottschalk
Gräfin Frackstein
Klaus Stiglmeier
Bestatter
Ossy Kolmann
Liborius
Corinna Drews
Jane
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Thomas Gottschalk was already Germany's biggest TV host; this film cashed in on his 'Wetten, dass..?' fame with zero shame.
The VCR-as-magic-portal concept perfectly captures 1985 anxieties about home video technology eating cinema alive.
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