The fully loaded Trabi rolled towards the Baltic Sea and father Detlef is for once in excellent mood. Did he not agreed with his friend Alfred, located immediately each issue back with an urgent telegram from the resort. But as the two then adventurous go stalking in the jungle of the big city, they experience a failure after another. Sullen Detlef longs for marriage Trott and campground. There would be matched and over the years rather bland become married woman Eveline is undergoing a remarkable transformation.
Acting
Ursula Karusseit's transformation from doormat to something else
Production
Authentically drab 70s GDR resort aesthetics
Writing
Telegram scam premise is genuinely unhinged
Director
Klaus Gendries
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
DEFA comedies often used Baltic Sea vacations to critique East German consumerism and gender roles under socialism.
The Trabant became an unintentional symbol of GDR collapse; here it's already the punchline.
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