Hamburg, Germany, summer 1988. A young bank employee embezzles a large amount of money using an ingenious technique and flees to Australia, from where he phones his girlfriend to tell her what he has done so easily; but her reaction is not what he naively expected.
Production
Gritty 16mm Hamburg footage meets jarring animated Australia sequences.
Writing
Dialogue so awkward it transcends into dark comedy territory.
Director
Sven O. Hill
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Sven O. Hill reportedly shot the Hamburg portions in actual locations from the real 1988 case, blurring documentary and fiction so aggressively that some extras didn't know it was a film.
The film captures a specific post-punk German indie aesthetic — think early Wim Wenders on a shoestring — that makes its 4.5 TMDB rating almost badge-of-honor territory for the right crowd.
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