One heist. Two idiots. Zero trust. The perfect recipe for spectacular disaster.
After a successful bank robbery, Erik and Bingo have to part again. While Erik is stuck in a demolition house with his booty and broken foot, Bingo believes Erik has settled with the money. The accomplices become bitter rivals.
Direction
Pre-Das Experiment Hirschbiegel squeezing dread from four walls.
Acting
Horwitz and Nickel's sweaty desperation feels dangerously real.
Director
Oliver Hirschbiegel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hirschbiegel made this TV movie two years before Das Experiment, practicing his signature technique of trapping desperate men in confined spaces.
1997 German TV cinema was having a gritty moment — this predates the international 'German crime wave' by a decade but shares its DNA.
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