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Drei und eine halbe Portion (1985)

85 min · Comedy, Crime

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Directors

Sigi Rothemund

Cast

Relja Bašić, Jürgen Hingsen, Patrick Bach, Margit Geissler, Otto Retzer, Andreas Mannkopff, Rolf Milser, Carmen Lentz, Danuta Lato, Natalie Uher, Karl Dall

Two nearly bankrupt pilots take a lucrative job transporting a coffin from Mallorca.

The story

Tscharlie and Hammer pilot Bravo-Air, a tiny budget airline that is effectively bankrupt after months of unpaid landing and parking fees at the small airport in Calvia. Four high-risk emergency landings in one month exhaust air-traffic-control chief Calcera’s patience, and the pilots’ aircraft will be impounded until their debts are paid. Their flight mechanic is with them when hot-headed Sicilian Fabo offers the two muscular pilots a large sum to transport a coffin from Mallorca, giving them a possible way out of their financial predicament.

Full plot (contains spoilers)

The two pilots, Tscharlie and Hammer, of a tiny budget airline with the euphemistic name “Bravo-Air” are effectively bankrupt: for months, the company has failed to pay landing and parking fees to the small airport in Calvia. Four high-risk emergency landings in the last month alone finally make Calcera, the rather deliberate head of air traffic control, lose patience. Until the two near-crash pilots have paid off their debts, their flying heap of junk will be impounded. Then one day, Tscharlie, Hammer, and the flight mechanic see a solution to all their problems: the hot-headed Sicilian Fabo hires the two muscular pilots for a lot of money to transport a coffin from Mallorca. The three men have no idea that there is something far more sensitive than a corpse in the wooden box. Before long, the unsuspecting aviators are caught up in a full-blown gang war, stoked by mafia boss and drug dealer Art Melone. His adversary is Leo Leone, who has his eye on the coffin’s contents: a valuable shipment of hashish…

Genres

Comedy, Crime

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