Now or never - time is money

Movie
Original title	Now or never - time is money
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	2000
length	95 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6 JMK 10
Rod
Director	Lars Büchel
script	Lars Büchel Ruth Toma
production	Helga Bähr Gerhard by Halem Hanno Huth Til Schweiger Ralf Zimmermann
music	Max Berghaus Stefan Hansen Dirk Reichardt
camera	Jo home
cut	Bettina Vogelsang
occupation
Gudrun Okras : Carla Elisabeth Scherer : Lilli Christel Peters : Meta Martin Semmelrogge : Bruno Corinna Harfouch : Flora Thierry van Werveke : Josef Dietmar Horcicka : Sven Schnittke Vladimir Weigl : Sven Krone Gerry Wolff : Erwin Kischke Jürgen Prediger : Salesman Kröger Til Schweiger : Shopkeeper Mark Keller : Knacki Ingrid von Bothmer : Lissy Schmitz Samuel Finzi : Dr. Crow Imke Büchel : Sister Maria Günter Lüdke : Paustian René Genesis : Krause Gustav Müller: Möbius Hannes Stelzer : Georg Meier Andreas Kunze : Mine Rainer Bock : Makowski Eva Ebner : Meager sense Lars Büchel : prison guard Oliver Korittke : Salesman in the snack bar

Now or never - time is money is a German crime comedy by Lars Büchel . The film opened in German cinemas on December 14, 2000.

action

For eight years, the dissimilar friends Lilli, Carla and Meta, all over seventy, paid into their skat kitty . Now they finally want to fulfill a lifelong dream with the savings: a luxury cruise together. When they want to deposit the savings at the bank, the bank is robbed. So the three elderly women decide to take drastic measures to get their money back. You are running out of time, because Carla has terminal cancer. They are also planning a bank robbery in order to still be able to fulfill their dream of a luxury cruise together. A first attempt fails, a second takes her to prison, where Carla dies.

reception

Reviews

“Screenwriter and director Lars Büchel gives the class actresses Gudrun Okras, Elisabeth Scherer and Christel Peters space to unfold with well-cooked evil dialogues. All have fun with this delicious old-comedy with melancholy overtones, "judged Kino.de . “Despite all the warm-hearted joke, it could prove difficult to lure the not very young target group into the cinema. Still helping the charming "Trio infernal" to succeed is a challenge for marketing strategists. "

success

With more than 480,000 visitors in Germany alone, the production ranks ahead of Marlene , Enlightenment Guaranteed and Die Unberührbare in 13th place among the most successful German films of the cinema year 2000. Gudrun Okras and her colleagues Elisabeth Scherer and Christel Peters received the Serious Award for their performance in film. 2001 Lubitsch Prize .

Web links

• Now or Never - Time is money in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Release certificate for now or never - time is money . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2008 (PDF; test number: 86 476 DVD).
2. ↑ criticism . Kino.de . Retrieved September 2, 2011.
3. ↑ film hit list: Years List (German) 2000 . In: Filmförderungsanstalt . FFA.de. Retrieved September 2, 2011.
4. ↑ Ernst Lubitsch Prize for “Summer in front of the balcony” . Schwaebische.de. January 30, 2006. Retrieved September 2, 2011.