The film became very popular among German youth. The film was appreciated by film critics for its car stunt scenes. The film received positive reviews and was declared a semi-hit at the German box office. Alexander von Eisenhart-Rothe as Axels Freund.Olaf Ploetz as Vorsitzender Taubenverein.While Helmut, who came to collect his Ferrari, furiously leaves the area, Axel comes at him on full throttle and his Mercedes collides with Helmut's Ferrari, ejecting the Mercedes against a lamp post and totally trashing it, enabling Klausi to win the race. Klausi races against Axel in Bertie's place with Bertie's car. Uschi arrives and tells Bertie that she is pregnant and will soon give birth to his child and Uschi and Bertie are reunited. Meanwhile, Uschi won the beauty contest at Helmut's nightclub and after Gerd warns her that Berti is about to race despite being drunk, she takes Helmut's keys and drives off in his Ferrari to stop Bertie from racing. Axel, aware of Bertie's condition, challenges Bertie to race immediately.ĭespite his condition, Bertie gets into his Manta and goes to the place where the race is to be held. The three then go back to Helmut's nightclub where Bertie happens to encounter Axel. Hearing this, Bertie gets angry and goes to the radio station where he creates a rumpus and consequently the radio station's security guard throws him out, along with Gerd and Florentine. Bertie then gets heavily drunk at a fast food joint while listening with Gerd to a radio station broadcasting Manta jokes and later also a secretly taken recording of his explanation of his lifestyle to a radio station intern called Florentine ( Lena Sabine Berg). Helmut tells him not to bother Uschi, takes him aside, punches him and bans him from entering his nightclub. Bertie and Gerd then get to Helmut's nightclub, where Bertie objects to Uschi's participation in the beauty contest. They both then push the car to the nearby workshop where Gerd previously worked and was fired from and fit the engine of a parked touring car into Bertie's car. Meanwhile, on the way to Westfalen Stadium, Dortmund, Bertie had damaged the engine of his car by over-revving it despite Gerd's warnings in a street race against a Bavarian BMW 3 Series full of Bayern Munich fans heading for the stadium. Later, with the help of Hakan, they manage to pull the car out of the lake and restore it to working condition. Helmut, embarrassed by this incident, starts chasing Klausi driving in Gerd's car with his Ferrari 328 GTS and Klausi unintentionally ends up sinking Gerd's car in a lake, misdirecting Helmut. Klausi, while driving in Gerd's car, which was lent to him temporarily for his birthday, reaches an ice cream joint where he mixes up the gears and his car accidentally hits Helmut. Uschi, who gets angry with Bertie for staking all their money and because she thinks that Bertie pays more attention to his car than her, meets nightclub owner Helmut, who offers her to take part in a beauty contest, which she decides to participate in to make Bertie jealous.īertie and his friends start preparing for the race. Axel is offended and furiously shouts "Can you not practice on the hill you idiots?" After a few scuffles and insults from Axel towards Bertie and his friends, Bertie challenges Axel to a race which Axel agrees to only after Bertie stakes the money which he and his girlfriend Uschi have saved to set up their family home. While sensible Gerd lets him pass, provocative Hakan chases him and hits his car which slows Axel down, but eventually they all gather at a fast food joint. One day, while Bertie was driving his car in a peace race against a VW Golf GTI, a Mercedes driver Axel ( Martin Armknecht), came up rapidly from behind. Together with his friends Gerd ( Stefan Gebelhoff), Klausi ( Michael Kessler) and Hakan ( Ömer Simsek) he enjoys driving in his Opel Manta as a hobby. In the Ruhr area: Bertie ( Til Schweiger) is the proud owner of a well-tuned Manta. Four weeks before the film was released Manta – Der Film was shown in theaters, which also focused on Opel Manta in a comedic way, see " Manta jokes".Īctors Til Schweiger, Tina Ruland and Michael Kessler started their film acting career with Manta, Manta. The English title of the film was Racin' in the Street. It was released in Germany on Octoand in Hungary on April 17, 1992. Singer/songwriter Sylkie Monoff makes a small appearance. The film features Til Schweiger, Tina Ruland, Stefan Gebelhoff, Lena Sabine Berg and Michael Kessler in the lead roles. Manta, Manta is a 1991 German language action comedy film directed by Wolfgang Büld.
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