Gladbeck – Dokument einer Geiselnahme
Directed by Michael Gramberg
Plot
About a dramatic bank robbery on August 16, 1988, where the criminals escape with two hostages and the media is right in the middle of their chase. Two days later the hostage situation was put to an end in a police operation on the A3 motorway. Three people were killed during this crisis - two teenage hostages and a policeman involved in a vehicle crash. The whole episode became a media circus in Germany and the Netherlands.
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Cast
Dieter Degowski
Himself/Bank robber
Hans-Jürgen Rösner
Himself/Bank robber
Herbert Schnoor
Himself/Politician
Rainer Fromm
Himself/Journalist
Silke Bischoff
Herself/Hostage
Wolfgang H. Schöning
Himself/Bank executive DB
Eckhard Mordhorst
Himself/Police inspector
Ines Falk
Herself/Hostage
Marion Löblich
Herself/ Rösner's girlfriend
Udo Röbel
Himself/Reporter
Bernd Meyer
Himself/Minister of interior Bremen
Gert Heidenreich
Narrator