Big Mäc
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Bernhard "Big Mäc" Maurer, an ex-motorcycle freak and bored piano teacher, is voted the "perfect motorcyclist" by the trade magazine Motorrad after quitting his job as a music teacher at a Munich high school. He is promised a bonus of $50,000 if he manages to beat a Japanese team in an adventure rally from the Zugspitze to Kilimanjaro. Maurer agrees and chooses as his second man, the technician, his young neighbor Max. Max, for whom an apprenticeship is at stake, injures himself shortly before the start of the rally and has to sit out. Without Maurer's knowledge, Max's almost identical-looking sister Maxi takes over the role of the boy.
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Thomas Gottschalk
Bernhard 'Big Mäc' Maurer
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Ankie Beilke
Hiroko
Beate Finckh
Maxi Brugger
Known for
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Ankie Lau
Hiroko
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Hansi Kraus
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Frau Brugger
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Bernd Stephan
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Wilfried Klaus
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Herbert Fux
Franz Leitner
Known for
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Gernot Duda
Fritz Hoffmann
Also in
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Sigi Rothemund Director · Franz Seitz Junior Screenplay Werner Schlierf Screenplay
First release April 26, 1985 · Produced in Germany
Production
Franz Seitz Filmproduktion
Production
Germany
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Original language
German
Spoken on screen
German
Release dates
Germany · April 26, 1985
Theatrical · Tivoli
No release date listed for United States.
Germany
February 4, 1989 · TV · ARD
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