Vorne ist verdammt weit weg

Erwin Pelzig injures his neighbour Johann Griesmaier through carelessness. He takes over the man’s job while Griesmaier recovers. The job is driving for a maker of shopping trolleys. The employer is a man named Bieger. There Pelzig learns that the work is in danger. Production is to be moved to Mongolia. Pelzig tries to stop it. The film puts present day questions of economics and politics into comedy. The work is a cabaret performer’s first appearance in a cinema film. Peter Lohmeyer and Tobias Oertel are in the cast as well. Frank-Markus Barwasser and Christiane Paul take the leads, with Philipp Sonntag also in the cast, in Thomas Heinemann’s German film of 2007.