Manta, Manta

Manta, Manta is a 1991 German language action comedy film directed by Wolfgang Bld. The film features Til Schweiger, Tina Ruland, Stefan Gebelhoff, Lena Sabine Berg and Michael Kessler in the lead roles. Singersongwriter Sylkie Monoff makes a small appearance. It was released in Germany on October 3, 1991 and in Hungary on April 17, 1992. The English title of the film was Racin in the Street. 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.

Bertie Til Schweiger is the proud owner of a welltuned Manta. Together with his friends Gerd Stefan Gebelhoff, Klausi Michael Kessler and Hakan mer Simsek he enjoys driving in his Opel Manta as a hobby. 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. 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. 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. 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.Bertie and his friends start preparing for the race. Klausi, while driving in Gerds 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. Helmut, embarrassed by this incident, starts chasing Klausi driving in Gerds car with his Ferrari 328 GTS and Klausi unintentionally ends up sinking Gerds car in a lake, misdirecting Helmut. Later, with the help of Hakan, they manage to pull the car out of the lake and restore it to working condition. Meanwhile, on the way to Westfalen Stadium, Dortmund, Bertie had damaged the engine of his car by overrevving it despite Gerds warnings in a street race against a Bavarian BMW 3series full of Bayern Munich fans heading for the stadium. They both then push the car to the nearby workshop where Gerd previously worked and was fired from and fit the engine

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