Popcorn und Paprika (1984)
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John Jürgens, Jenny Jürgens, Lawrence Tosh, Siegfried Rauch, Corinna Drews, Alexander Gittinger, Teri Tordai, Hilda Gobbi, Péter Haumann, Beatrix Kopf, Gabriella Fon
In Budapest, coach Sigi struggles to keep his young swimmers focused on competition as a joint trip with Hungary’s team brings romantic distractions.
The story
The German national swimming team travels to Budapest for an international competition against the Hungarian team. Many of the German athletes are teenagers, eager to flirt and have fun during the trip. When the Germans and Hungarians train together, the athletes grow close and begin to mingle. Coach Sigi has to work to keep his star swimmers focused on the competition rather than romance. His son Peter also becomes part of the romantic entanglements when he falls for Piri, complicating the coach’s effort to keep the team on task.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
The German national swimming team travels to Budapest for an international competition against the Hungarians. Among them are many teenagers who are very curious about the opposite sex behind the Iron Curtain and are looking forward to flirting and having fun. During joint training, the German and Hungarian athletes soon grow close, and the boys and girls begin to mingle. Swimming coach Sigi has his hands full trying to keep his star swimmers focused on the competition rather than the bedroom. The coach knows what he is talking about: many years ago, when he himself traveled to Hungary, he fell in love with a pretty local woman and married her. Now his son Peter seems headed for the same fate, having fallen in love with the sweet Piri. What nobody knows so far is that, as a result of an affair, Sigi fathered a girl here in Hungary. Could she possibly be Piri? Peter is utterly distraught at the thought. Completely confused, he calls his mother, who flies to Budapest the very next day …
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