Berlin, shortly after the fall of the Wall: Eddy from the East is the undisputed No. 1 in the business: no one sticks as fast as he does. In the evenings, the poster artist sits in his den, eats peanuts and ponders why women only ever go for his "friend" Ralf. The gloomy hours are suddenly over when Eddy is discovered for an advertising campaign. As "Shaky, der Erdnußmann (the peanut man)", he makes it big. With a souped-up Golf GTI and a really loud hi-fi drone, he dashes off into a new life. What falls by the wayside is the tender bond he has just forged with the voluptuous Margot...
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Cast
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Franziska Troegner
Margot
Known for
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Ulrike Krumbiegel
Linda
Known for
Antibodies
A Woman in Berlin
Dietmar Klein
Hartmut Jahn
Hans-Joachim Grubel
Eddy Stresow
Also in
Solinger Rudi
Utopia
Hans Kutnewsky
Evelyn Meyka
Rita
Known for
Kein Pardon
Guntbert Warns
Olaf Dietrich
Known for
The Holcroft Covenant
Jürgen Watzke
Ralf
Ralf Holzhausen
Kasulke
Gerald Schaale
Max
Alexander Schröder
St. Just
Dietmar Klein Director
First release September 20, 1992 · Produced in Germany
Production
Germany
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Original language
German
Spoken on screen
German
Release dates
Spain · September 20, 1992
San Sebastián Film Festival
Germany · September 24, 1992
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No release date listed for United States.
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