Overview

About a dramatic bank robbery on August 16, 1988, where the criminals escape with two hostages and the media is right in the middle of their chase. Two days later the hostage situation was put to an end in a police operation on the A3 motorway. Three people were killed during this crisis - two teenage hostages and a policeman involved in a vehicle crash. The whole episode became a media circus in Germany and the Netherlands.

Top Cast

D

Dieter Degowski

Himself/Bank robber

Hans-Jürgen Rösner

Himself/Bank robber

H

Herbert Schnoor

Himself/Politician

R

Rainer Fromm

Himself/Journalist

Silke Bischoff

Herself/Hostage

W

Wolfgang H. Schöning

Himself/Bank executive DB

E

Eckhard Mordhorst

Himself/Police inspector

I

Ines Falk

Herself/Hostage

M

Marion Löblich

Herself/ Rösner's girlfriend

U

Udo Röbel

Himself/Reporter

B

Bernd Meyer

Himself/Minister of interior Bremen

G

Gert Heidenreich

Narrator