Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Script: Wolfgang Petersen, Wolfgang Menge, Gentleman in roten Zahlen (Ralph Maloney)
Photography: Jörg-Michael Baldenius
Music: Klaus Doldinger
Production Design: Kurt Raab
Principal Cast: Herbert Bötticher,Walter Kohut, Günther Neutze, Ingrid van Bergen, Otto Sander, Karin Eickelbaum, Harald Leipnitz
Production editor: Peter Märthesheimer
Production: WDR
Business is bad for an architect, a fashion designer, an advertising filmmaker, and an actor. But life is expensive, so the four try to keep up appearances and plan a bank robbery. The amateurs succeed thanks only to the intervention of real professionals. The film is unmistakably derived from American models, but Menge wonderfully gives it a German slant. Directed by Wolfgang Petersen, it is a scathing satire of the wealth and excess of the 70s. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung wrote at the time full of hope, "it appears that the TV stations are now taking the difficult chapter of light entertainment more seriously.”