Family Struutz lives in Bitterfeld (GDR). After the fall of the wall, they take the opportunity to go on holiday with their car, an old Trabant. They simply want to visit Italy. But there are some incidents during their journey.
Practical Effects
The Trabant itself — a smoking, sputtering character
Acting
Wolfgang Stumph's deadpan everyman desperation
Production
Genuine locations capturing that specific 1990 chaos
Director
Peter Timm
Claudia Schmutzler
Jacqueline Struutz
Marie Gruber
Rita Struutz
Wolfgang Stumph
Udo Struutz
Dieter Hildebrandt
Kfz-Meister
Ottfried Fischer
Bernd Amberger
Diether Krebs
Fernfahrer
Barbara Valentin
Mrs. Gamshuber
Billie Zöckler
Gerda Amberger
Konstantin Wecker
Playboy
André Eisermann
Alfons Amberger
Monika Baumgartner
Saleswoman
Philipp Moog
Mercedes Driver
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released just months after German reunification, it captured a nation processing freedom through absurdity — the Trabant became an unlikely symbol of Ostalgie.
The production used over 30 Trabants because they kept breaking down for real — method filmmaking at its finest.
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