The whiz kid

Movie
Original title	The whiz kid
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1989
length	85 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Christian Rateuke
script	Paul Nicholas (idea) Christian Rateuke, Christoph Treutwein
production	Werner Mietzner , Wolf Bauer
music	Jürgen Knieper
camera	Atze Glanert
cut	Brigitte Rausch
occupation
Mike Krüger : Mike Christina Plate : Egon Karl Dall : Löffler András Fricsay : Codinsky Ursula Diestel : presenter Karl-Ulrich Meves : supervision Georg Tryphon : Supervision Christine Schild : Policewoman Birgit Anders : Policewoman Gerd Holtenau : Game room owner Maximilian Rüthlein : Control man Detlef Bierstedt : bouncer Herbert Weißbach : Grandpa

Die Hochstarter is a German comedy film from 1988 with Mike Krüger , Christina Plate and Karl Dall . The premiere was on January 26, 1989.

action

In the fictitious future of 1999, the cash flow is as good as abolished. Financial transactions are only carried out via credit cards. This is the time of the life artist and loser Mike. He gets to know the pretty Egon and falls in love with her. Egon, however, has a secret. Since she struggles as a small crook with credit card theft, she is blackmailed by the nasty Codinsky to work for him as a fetcher. Fetchers is a new profession at this time, which, like bailiffs, “fetches” goods from people who can no longer pay their credit.

Only when Egon confides in Mike and it turns out that Codinsky is no big deal in the central bank, but only drives the cleaning ladies, there is hope of a way out. Codinsky makes them an offer to help him steal the GMCC, the General Master Code Card. It is the card of all cards, with which you can redirect all money to all accounts. Together with Mike's friend Löffler, an unsuccessful playboy, they set out to break into the central bank.

With a lot of luck and some daring as well as insane maneuvers, they get to the vault of the GMCC, in which Codinsky again turns out to be a traitor and Mike, Egon and Löffler go into a trap and disappear themselves with the GMCC. However, since Mike succeeds in exchanging the GMCC for a normal credit card in an unobserved moment, Codinsky escapes with the wrong card and thereby blows up the central bank's main computer and himself, while Mike, Egon and Löffler escape with the real GMCC can.

criticism

"After a tolerable start, the film, intended as a satire for the near future, petered out in the lowlands of extreme boredom and stupidity."

- Lexicon of international film

Web links

• The whiz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The whiz kid at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The whiz kid. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .