Go Trabi Go – Die Sachsen kommen
Go Trabi Go is a 1991 German comedy and road movie directed by Peter Timm. It was the first major box office hit about events concerning the newly reunified Germany. Unlike other films in this period that focused on the problems following reunification, Go Trabi Go sees the main characters, former citizens of East Germany, explore places in Europe outside the Eastern Bloc that they were not allowed to visit during the Communist era.
Plot
Udo Struutz (Wolfgang Stumph), teacher in the East German town of Bitterfeld, Saxony-Anhalt, is a great fan of Goethe and wants to visit all places described in Goethe's Italian Journey. Following the German reunification in 1990, he sees the possibility to do so since it is now possible for him and his wife Rita (Marie Gruber) and daughter Jacqueline (Claudia Schmutzler) to travel to Italy. Driving in their family Trabant (called "Schorsch"), they set out to go on their first vacation in the "west".
More details
| author | Peter Timm Reinhard Klooss |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Italy |
| director | Peter Timm |
| editor | Christel Suckow |
| genre | comedy |
| keywords | bitterfeld camera drive east german east germany family reunion german family german reunification goethe italian journey luxury hotel naples regensburg rome saxony-anhalt spanish steps spare part trabant truck driver vesuvius west young women |
| musicBy | Wolff-Eckehardt Stein |
| producer | Reinhard Kloss |
| theme | road movie |