A champion marathoner leads a double life as a serial bank robber, sprinting between fixes (and away from police cavalcades) as many as three times a day.
Acting
Andreas Lust's physical transformation — a body that betrays nothing.
Direction
Heisenberg's unflinching observation, never moralizing.
Editing
The rhythmic cuts between running and robbery, prayer and violence.
Director
Benjamin Heisenberg
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on real Austrian bank robber Johann Kastenberger, who used his marathon training to outrun police in the 1980s.
The film deliberately avoids psychological explanation — we're never told why he robs, only that he must. The absence is the point.
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