Director: Dominik Graf
Script: Uwe Erichsen, Christoph Fromm, based on Uwe Erichsen’s novel „Das Leben einer Katze“
Photography: Martin Schäfer
Editor: Christel Sukow
Music: Andreas Köbner
Production Design: Matthias Kammermeier
Cast: Götz George, Gudrun Landgrebe, Joachim Kemmer, Heinz Hoenig, Ralf Richter
Producer: Georg Feil
Production: Bavaria/ZDF
Awards: Deutscher Filmpreis (Filmband in Gold) 1987 an Dominik Graf für Beste Regie
German Distribution: German United Distribution
Tel: + 49 89 64 990
Fax: + 49 89 6499 240
He's always one step ahead of the law: Probek is a mastermind with nerves of steel and a perfect plan. From a hotel room command post he walks his accomplices through a bank robbery; hostages are taken, everything seems to be going smoothly, but the unforeseen involvement of Probeks sweetheart Jutta spells catastrophe... With technical perfection, precision timing and extraordinary acting this gangster-thriller creates an atmosphere of relentless tension.