Didi auf vollen Touren (1986)

Didi auf vollen Touren: Directed by Wigbert Wicker. With Dieter Hallervorden, Bernard Menez, Pierre Tornade, Hans Peter Hallwachs. German vehicle fanatic Dieter ‘Didi’ accepts to drive a truckload of waste barrels to a French dump site. Didi ignores the plant needs to dump toxic waste after a major incident, which made the international news. But while the French site exploiter’s agent Marcel believes it’s Did’s load, that’s in fact a deliberately obvious diversion. Now everyone chases everyone else.

“What? Auf vollen Touren? The truck Didi is driving may be, but the film surely is not. The comedy never gets of the ground and successful jokes are few and far between. It perhaps could have been a mild satire on (political) corruption concerning chemical waste disposal, but now it an aimless and wearisome farce.”