Directed by:
Florian FlickerScreenplay:
Susanne FreundCinematography:
Helmut PirnatCast:
Roland Düringer, Josef Hader, Joachim Bißmeier, Birgit Doll, Klaus Händl, Margarete Tiesel, Ulrike Beimpold, Sonja Romei, Klaus Ortner, Johanna Tomek (more)Plots(1)
Andreas is a total loser. His wife has left him, he’s lost his job and although it’s his son’s birthday he doesn’t even have a present for him. He’s seen loads of movies where a crook in a clown mask goes into a bank and comes out with a sack full of money. And this becomes his plan. The only problem is that he lives in Austria and not in an American film full of cold-blooded criminals. This Austrian crook, an amateur dressed as a clown, panics even before he can draw his gun. After his rather pathetic and unsuccessful attempts to first rob a bank and then a grocery store, Andreas ends up at a small corner tailor’s. But what was intended as a lightening-quick assault turns into a trap in which the crook is confined along with the hostile tailor and his customers. The whole street is surrounded by police and Andreas has to make the best of a situation in which even an armed criminal isn’t always the one in control. This brilliant comedy succeeds thanks primarily to the witty dialogue and the performances of the three lead actors. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Roland Düringer
Austria
Best movies:
Life Eternal (2015)
Cops (2018)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Josef Hader
Austria
Best movies:
Come Sweet Death (2000)
Arthur & Claire (2017)
The Bone Man (2009)
Joachim Bißmeier
German Empire
Best movies:
Sunshine (1999)
Merry Christmas (2005)
Before the Fall (2004)
Birgit Doll
Austria
Best movies:
The Seventh Continent (1989)
Hard to Be a God (1989)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Klaus Händl
Austria
Best movies:
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994)
Invincible (2001)
Margarete Tiesel
Austria
Best movies:
The Collini Case (2019)
The Golden Glove (2019)
Paradise: Love (2012)
Ulrike Beimpold
Austria
Best movies:
Schwabenkinder (2003) (TV movie)
Erik & Erika (2018)
The Wall (2012)
Sonja Romei
Austria
Best movies:
We used to be cool (2016)
Time of the Wolf (2003)
Lovecut (2020)
Klaus Ortner
Best movies:
Time of the Wolf (2003)
Silentium (2004)
Verfolgt - Der kleine Zeuge (2012) (TV movie)
Johanna Tomek
Best movies:
Tatort (1970) (series)
Michael Tanczos
Best movies:
Banlieue nord (1999)
Der Bulle von Tölz (1996) (series)
Carmen Loley
Austria
Best movies:
Life Eternal (2015)
Time of the Wolf (2003)
Roswitha Soukup
Austria
Best movies:
Sergent-Major Eismayer (2022)
Still Life (2011)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Matisse Mazur
USA
Best movies:
Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Freeloaders (2012)
Thomas Freudensprung
Austria
Best movies:
Tatort (1970) (series)
Ina Halmagyi
West Germany