
Smokey and the Bandit(1977)
A race car driver tries to transport an illegal beer shipment from Texas to Atlanta in under 28 hours, picking up a reluctant bride-to-be on the way.

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.

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

Wilfried Klaus

Herbert Fux
Franz Leitner

Gernot Duda
Fritz Hoffmann
Big Mäc is a adventure, comedy film released in 1985 exploring themes of road movie. Directed by Sigi Rothemund, it stars Thomas Gottschalk, Beate Finckh, Ankie Lau. 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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