Details
Bertie (Til Schweiger) ended his racing career and now runs a failing car repair shop and go-kart track. When the bank threatens to foreclose on his business, Bertie comes up with a daring plan: first prize at the upcoming 90’s nostalgia race, could solve his financial problems.. With only one month to transform his run-down OPEL MANTA into a racing “projectile”, the race against the clock begins. When his ex-wife Uschi (Tina Ruland) suddenly re-enters Bertie's life, she asks him to take care of their (young adult) son Daniel (Tim Oliver Schultz). Bertie's month of chaos is just beginning.
Trivia
The action comedy is a sequel to the first MANTA, MANTA feature film from 1991, which generated more than 1.2 million theatrical admissions! MANTA MANTA: LEGACY reunites the leading cast of the 1991 original: Til Schweiger., Tina Ruland (“Ants in the Pants”) and Michael Kessler (“The Vexxer”, “Look Who's Back”) with a stellar ensemble including Tim Oliver Schultz (“The Wave”,” The Red Band Society”), Luna Schweiger (“Rabbit Without Ears”, “Guardians”), Moritz Bleibtreu (“Run Lola Run”), Nilam Farooq (“Contra”, “Rate Your Date”) and Wotan Wilke Möhring (“Men in the City”, “Valkyrie”).
Critics
...'SCHWEIGER is doing something here that only TOM CRUISE could otherwise do.'
Hans Georg Radek, Welt.de
