Two old cons plan one last score—if they don't kill each other first.
Bingo and Sturzi became friends in prison and have big plans. After their release, they both want to turn their backs on a life of crime and emigrate to Brazil. When Sturzi is released from prison six months after Bingo, he discovers that his friend is still broke and even has criminal plans again. Sturzi, who has grown older and wiser in prison, is deeply disappointed, but wants to generously pay for the plane tickets out of his small fortune. His guardian disagrees: Sturzi is to go to a men's shelter and pay off his debts first. When he witnesses how amateurishly Bingo and his buddy Schorschi are planning a bank robbery, the old professional in Sturzi awakens.
Acting
Gnädinger and Walter's prickly, lived-in chemistry carries every scene.
Direction
Imboden finds unexpected tenderness in sweaty, amateur criminal schemes.
Director
Markus Imboden
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ruedi Walter was 76 during filming and had never played a leading film role before—this was his accidental swan song.
The film captures 1990 Zurich's gritty underbelly rarely shown in Swiss cinema, which preferred pastoral clichés.
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