Banklady (film)

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Movie
Original title Bank lady
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2013
length 118 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Christian Alvart
script Christoph Silber ,
Kai Hafemeister
production NDR ,
Max Wiedemann
music Christoph Blaser ,
Michl Britsch ,
Steffen Kahles
camera The Chau Ngo
cut Christian Alvart ,
Sebastian Bonde
occupation

Banklady is a German crime film by director Christian Alvart from 2013. It tells the true story of Gisela Werler , who was the first German bank robber to hit the headlines and was referred to by the public as "Banklady".

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In Hamburg in the 1960s, Gisela Werler worked as a packer in a wallpaper company. She lives with her parents in a small apartment and has few social contacts. She met Hermann Wittorf through her colleague Uwe. She succumbs to his charm and doesn't let the fact that he is a bank robber put her off. She quickly becomes an accomplice and then the driving force in the attacks with Herrmann and Uwe. Since she always politely demands the surrender of the money in the bank branches with a wig, sunglasses and gun at gunpoint, the press calls her the “bank lady”. Since the attacks in Hamburg and the surrounding area are increasing, Commissioner Fischer is assigned to the bank robbers. After a long and unsuccessful manhunt, complications arise during a robbery: the employees of a bank resist a robbery. This is followed by a lengthy exchange of fire and the bank robbers' hasty escape. If a car accident is caused in this way, the perpetrators are identified by the police. All three are sentenced to long prison terms. Gisela and Hermann later marry in prison.

Reviews

Film starts : “You just have to like the“ Bank Lady ”! Christian Alvart delivers with his heavily cast, nostalgic thriller love drama, likeable German popcorn cinema with high entertainment value. "

Frankfurter Neue Presse : “Alvart - who sat in the director's chair for the crime scene crime thriller about Nick Tschiller (Till Schweiger), among other things - turned the spectacular story into a gangster film that is well worth seeing, with many impressions of the late Adenauer period. A forgotten suitcase of her admirer (Andreas Schmidt) triggers Gisela Werler's breakout from her close parental home with a careworn mother and the war-injured father. Charly Hübner, otherwise active on the right side of the law as a police call commissioner, mimes Wittorff. As expected, he does an excellent job. And Nadeshda Brennicke likes it even better than Gisela: It is precisely her credible change from the pretty gray mouse to the nerve-racking femme fatale that makes up a large part of the film's authentic effect. "

The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Banklady . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2013 (PDF; test number: 140 210 K).
  2. ^ Filmstarts.de: Critique of the FILMSTARTS editorial team
  3. ↑ fnp.de: “Banklady”: The crazy story is true!