Didi - Der Doppelgänger

Popular West German television comedian Dieter Hallervorden takes up a dual role in this slapstick comedy about switched identities. On the one hand, Hallervorden plays the CEO of a large conglomerate, Hans Immer, and on the other, he is Bruno Koob, a lowly bartender, falling off the opposite end of the economic scale. Because of a suspected kidnapping plot, these two look-alikes are switched and Immer goes off with his female of the moment for an enjoyable, anonymous weekend while Koob wreaks havoc on the corporate world. As events unfold, Koob is better and better at this corporate business, and Immer slides lower and lower. Hallervordern's slapstick Koob is reminiscent of the antics of the American comedian Red Skelton, but the rest of the humor in the film is uneven, relying on well-worn jokes rather than untried originality. (official distributor synopsis)