Not a row house for Robin Hood
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Not a row house for Robin Hood |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1981 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Wolf Gremm |
| script | Wolf Gremm based on a detective novel by -ky |
| production | Regina Ziegler |
| music | Charles Kalman |
| camera | Michael Steinke |
| cut | Siegrun hunter |
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No Row House for Robin Hood is a German crime film by Wolf Gremm with Hermann Lause and Jutta Speidel in the leading roles. The strip, created in the summer of 1980, was based on a novel by -ky (Horst Bosetzky).
action
In a small town in the Federal Republic of Germany in nowhere in East Westphalia, the industrialist Greskämper is kidnapped by terrorists. The kidnappers demand and receive a ransom of one million DM for the release of the man who is held responsible for mass layoffs in his company , and a dangerous sex offender is obviously up to mischief in the area as well. Soon fear and hysteria spread among the population.
The Berlin graduate political scientist Benno Dropsch and the education student Britta Schmidt, who dropped out of their studies prematurely, moved from Berlin to the East Westphalian province to find peace and nature there and also to take over the tobacco goods business from Benno's grandfather. During an evening stroll through the nearby forest, the two young people discover a seriously injured woman who was attacked by the sex offender they were looking for. This Hannelore Bragulla is one of the terrorists who kidnapped Greskämper and has 750,000 marks from the ransom with her. When the woman dies, Benno and Britta bury her on site and take 250,000 marks for themselves. They distribute the remaining half a million, as Mrs. Bragulla had asked them to do, to the workers laid off by Greskämper. The police soon track them down and it is assumed that Benno is the head of the kidnappers. He is arrested while Britta tries to get away with her share. For the two "Robin Hoods" there will probably not be the row house they dreamed of ...
Production notes
No Row House for Robin Hood , a film-TV co-production with ZDF , was built between May 12 and July 11, 1980 in Minden and the surrounding area and in West Berlin. The film premiered on April 2, 1981. On June 27, 1983, the film had its first German television broadcast on ZDF.
During the premiere of this film, master author -ky revealed his true identity: Horst Bosetzky.
Reviews
"[...] Heimatfilm that is dangerous to the state."
“This film could be about how the dream of an aggravated life came to an end. And it is only about how the extremely clever producer Regina Ziegler, in close partnership with the extremely powerful film theater entrepreneur Heinz Riech, offers an extremely confused television thriller ... to the paying clientele as a cinema event. This is how miserably Robin Hood perishes: the rebel as a con man. Most German films are so boring because they don't trust themselves to do what they're supposed to be about: Anarchy in the 'Tatort' style ('No row house for Robin Hood') is the opposite of anarchy. "
“A ludicrous comedy between black humor, sarcasm and a precise description of reality, with numerous borrowings from classic models such as Hitchcock or Buñuel. Unfortunately, the funny material is shot in the formal style of German TV thrillers, but with excellent main actors. "
Web links
- No townhouse for Robin Hood in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- No row house for Robin Hood at filmportal.de