''Car-napping'' is a German comedy about international car thieves from 1980 with Bernd Stephan and

Anny Duperey Anny Duperey (born Annie Legras; 28 June 1947) is a French actress, published photographer and best-selling author with a career spanning almost six decades as of 2021 and more than eighty cinema or television credits, around thirty theatre pro ...

Story

On returning from an extended vacation, designer Robert Mehring must notice to his complete surprise that the company he used to work for does not exist anymore. The owner of the business, Benninger, has secretly liquidated the business and fled abroad with Mehrings drafts. Mehring locates Benninger on the Côte d'Azur and confronts him – without any success. Later Mehring has to realize that his Porsche 911 was stolen, including all his papers. The local police chief makes clear that Mehring can't expect any help from the side of the authorities. Incidentally a short time later Mehring discovers his car in traffic and confronts the thieves, two Italians named Carlo and Mario, as they want to sell the 911 to a dealer. In return for not being reported to the police, the car thieves offering their cooperation. At first Mehring declines, but after learning that his former boss Benninger owns a car dealership in Paris with 40 Porsches, Mehring accepts the offer of Carlo and Mario. With the help of other chums, they steal all 40 cars in a single night and sell them. Mehring becomes the head of the "Carnappers" stealing luxury vehicles on order, including the printer Herrmann Aichinger who was also a victim of Benninger and is now making falsificated documents The "business" runs well until Mehring gets blackmailed and falls in love with Claudia Klessing, a lawyer. He wants to cop out, but just after the final coup in Salzburg he's been caught by the police. Thanks to the help of Claudia and Herrmann, Mehring can escape from pretrial detention.

Cast

* – Robert Mehring *

– Claudia Klessing * – Herrmann Aichinger * Peter Kuhnert – Mario * Luigi Tortora – Carlo *

Ivan Desny Ivan Desny (born Ivan Nikolaevich Desnitskij; 28 December 1922 – 13 April 2002) was a Chinese-born actor of Russian descent. Early life Desny was born in Peking, China. Career Desny was a film actor. Bilingual in French and German, he acted ...

– Consul Barnet *

Adrian Hoven Adrian Hoven (18 May 1922 – 28 April 1981) was an Austrian actor, producer and film director. He appeared in 100 films between 1947 and 1981. He was born in Wöllersdorf, Austria as ''Wilhelm Arpad Hofkirchner'' and died in Tegernsee, Ge ...

– Benninger *

Götz Kauffmann Götz Kauffmann (15 January 1949 – 26 January 2010) was an Austrian stage, film and television actor, cabaret artist and writer. Life Gottfried Maria Kauffman was born in the fifteenth district of Vienna. His father was the noted Vienna or ...

– * – Fischer *

Michel Galabru Michel Louis Edmond Galabru (27 October 19224 January 2016) was a French actor. Career Galabru appeared in more than 250 films and worked with directors such as Bertrand Blier, Costa-Gavras, Luc Besson (for '' Subway''), and Jean-Luc Godard. ...

– Thibaut *

Eddie Constantine Eddie Constantine (born Edward Israël Constantinowsky; October 29, 1917 – February 25, 1993) was an American singer, actor and entertainer who spent most of his career in France. He became well-known to film audiences for his portrayal of se ...

– Laroux, police officer *

Adolfo Celi Adolfo Celi (; 27 July 1922 – 19 February 1986) was an Italian film actor and director. Born in Curcuraci, Messina, Sicily, Celi appeared in nearly 100 films, specialising in international villains. Although a prominent actor in Italian ...

– Head of police in Palermo

Critics

External links

* 1980 films 1980s crime comedy films German crime comedy films West German films 1980s German-language films German heist films Films about automobiles Films set in Austria Films set in France Films set on the French Riviera Films set in Italy 1980 comedy films 1980s German films {{comedy-crime-film-stub