A bank robbery where everyone saw nothing—but guilt has 20/20 vision.
It's Saturday lunchtime in a small town near Munich and there's not much going on. The local bank is already closed, doors and windows are barred. The few passers-by in the main shopping street do not notice that a violent crime is being committed behind these windows. When the police later take up the investigation, a young bank employee becomes the only witness. His statements seem contradictory. And yet it is several other people who now have to struggle with conflicts of conscience. The more gaps in the police's chain of evidence, the more serious the decision to tell the truth and risk their own happiness. It's Saturday lunchtime in a small town near Munich and there's not much going on. The local bank is already closed, doors and windows are barred.
Acting
Helga Göring's suppressed panic is devastating.
Direction
Dreger traps you in that locked bank with them.
Writing
Every line of dialogue is a noose tightening.
Director
Percy Dreger
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made in the GDR but set in Bavaria—an East German director imagining West German moral decay.
Percy Dreger was primarily a stage director; this was one of his rare film outings.
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