Iron Gustav (German: Der eiserne Gustav) is West German television series which originally aired on ARD in seven episodes between 27 August and 8 October 1979. It is based on the 1938 novel Iron Gustav by Hans Fallada about a Berlin taxi driver still using a horse-drawn carriage, and the hardships he faces due to increasing competition from motor cars in the Weimar Era. In 1928 to demonstrate what he can still do he takes his carriage from Berlin to Paris.