# Panic Time

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***Panic Time*** (German: ***Panische Zeiten***) is a 1980 West German [comedy film](/source/Comedy_film) directed by [Peter Fratzscher](/source/Peter_Fratzscher) and starring [Udo Lindenberg](/source/Udo_Lindenberg), [Vera Tschechowa](/source/Vera_Tschechowa) and [Walter Kohut](/source/Walter_Kohut).[1][2]

The film's sets were designed by the [art director](/source/Art_director) [Toni Lüdi](/source/Toni_L%C3%BCdi). Shooting took place in [Dortmund](/source/Dortmund), [Hamburg](/source/Hamburg) and [Munich](/source/Munich). The film's [soundtrack](/source/Soundtrack) was released on the album *[Panische Zeiten](/source/Panische_Zeiten)*.

## Plot

After a successful concert and during a raucous pool party with plenty of alcohol and loose women, famous singer [Udo Lindenberg](/source/Udo_Lindenberg) is kidnapped by a group of political extremists led by the power-hungry Dr. K. They intend to brainwash him to overthrow the German government.

Udo's manager hires Carl Coolman, a laid-back but unsuccessful private investigator, to retrieve the rock star. Aided by Udo's three heavyweight bodyguards Felix, Klaus, and Otto, Coolman sets out to search for traces within [Hamburg](/source/Hamburg)'s subculture, including the [Reeperbahn](/source/Reeperbahn). He receives hints from his friend, secret agent [Lemmy Caution](/source/Lemmy_Caution).

However, Udo manages to free himself. Using a parachute, he jumps out of a helicopter that is supposed to take him to [Norway](/source/Norway) right into the [North Sea](/source/North_Sea). He is washed up on an island where he is saved by the lighthouse keeper's niece. From there, he accidentally spreads his message of peace. Because of a malfunction his critism of the government is broadcast across the radios, TVs, speakers and telephones of the entire country.

This leads to Udo becoming the new Federal Chancellor with a colourful cabinet that includes [Peggy Parnass](/source/Peggy_Parnass) as [Federal Minister of Justice](/source/Federal_Ministry_of_Justice_and_Consumer_Protection), [Fritz Rau](/source/Fritz_Rau) as Minister of Information, [Otto Wanz](/source/Otto_Wanz) and [Klaus Kauroff](/source/Klaus_Kauroff) as Ministers of [Alternative Energy](/source/Renewable_energy), [Helga Feddersen](/source/Helga_Feddersen) as Minister of Women, as well as several other new ministers from the general public. On camera, Carl Coolman is named by Udo as the new Minister of Anti-Violence.

The film ends with him passing many socio-political reforms aimed to radically eliminate corruption and political injustice and a subsequent rock concert.

## Cast

- [Udo Lindenberg](/source/Udo_Lindenberg) as Self / Carl Coolman
- [Leata Galloway](/source/Leata_Galloway) as Vera
- [Walter Kohut](/source/Walter_Kohut) as Minister Dr. Kurt Kling
- [Vera Tschechowa](/source/Vera_Tschechowa) as Mrs. Dr. Wunder
- [Felix Scholz](/source/Felix_Scholz) as Bodyguard Felix
- [Klaus Kauroff](/source/Klaus_Kauroff) as Bodyguard Klaus
- [Otto Wanz](/source/Otto_Wanz) as Bodyguard Otto
- [Hark Bohm](/source/Hark_Bohm) as Dr. Gerhard Kühn
- [Beate Jensen](/source/Beate_Jensen) as Wiebke Stinksterff von Löloland
- [Eddie Constantine](/source/Eddie_Constantine) as [Lemmy Caution](/source/Lemmy_Caution)
- [Rudolf Beiswanger](/source/Rudolf_Beiswanger) as Lighthouse keeper Süchtig
- [Peter Ahrweiler](/source/Peter_Ahrweiler) as Professor McNaughton
- [Fritz Rau](/source/Fritz_Rau) as Self
- [Heinz Domez](/source/Heinz_Domez) as Kidnapper
- [Werner Böhm](/source/Werner_B%C3%B6hm) as Kidnapper
- [Willi Hermann](/source/Willi_Hermann) as Kidnapper
- [Renate Schubert](/source/Renate_Schubert) as Prostitute Rosa
- [Egon Müller](/source/Egon_M%C3%BCller) as Self
- [Jürgen Baumgarten](/source/J%C3%BCrgen_Baumgarten) as Motorradfahrer
- [Karl Dall](/source/Karl_Dall) as Vögelwart
- [Günter Netzer](/source/G%C3%BCnter_Netzer) as Günter Netzer's manager

## References

1. Bock & Bergfelder p.300

1. Hake p.180

## Bibliography

- Hans-Michael Bock and Tim Bergfelder. *The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema*. Berghahn Books, 2009.
- Hake, Sabine. *German National Cinema*. Routledge, 2002.

## External links

- [Panic Time](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081301/) at IMDb

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