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.
Cast
Thomas Gottschalk
Bernhard 'Big Mäc' Maurer
Beate Finckh
Maxi Brugger
Ankie Lau
Hiroko
Eiji Kusuhara
Professor
Hansi Kraus
Wanninger
Loni von Friedl
Frau Brugger
Bernd Stephan
Unknown
Wilfried Klaus
Unknown
Herbert Fux
Franz Leitner
Gernot Duda
Fritz Hoffmann
Frank Lenart
Unknown
Alexander Osteroth
Unknown
Ludwig Haas
Rektor
Marietta Meade
Unknown
Volker Prechtel
Zollbeamter
Georg Einerdinger
Unknown
Dieter Mainka
Unknown
Mathias Eysen
Unknown
Klaus Dieter Friesenhausen
Unknown
Ulrich Frank
Unknown
Crew
Sigi Rothemund
Director, Screenplay
Lilo Schick
Script
Werner Schlierf
Screenplay
Franz Seitz Junior
Screenplay, Producer
Norbert Herzner
Editor
Friedrich M. Dosch
Editor
Gabriele Friedrich
Assistant Editor
Frank Brühne
Director of Photography
Klaus Dieter Friesenhausen
Assistant Director
Rainer Hartmann
Assistant Camera
Ute Truthmann
Costume Designer
Susan Morrison
Costume Assistant
Anne Veronika Kusmin
Makeup Artist
Christian Schubert
Sound Mixer
Folkert Prestin
Sound
Hans Endrulat
Sound
Markus Rödelberger
Music Producer
Mane Bock
Music Producer
Robert Pferdmenges
Music
Karl Reiter
Still Photographer
Bernhard Henrich
Property Master
Jens Gehra
Property Master
Ferdinand Althoff
Production Manager
Michael Waldleitner
Unit Manager
Leo Süßmeir
Unit Manager
Heidi Lüdi
Art Direction
Sonja Beutura
Coordinating Producer
