Gladbeck – Dokument einer Geiselnahme

(2006)

★ 6 IMDb · 2 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 2006

Runtime: 88 мин

Country: Germany

Director: Michael Gramberg

Cast: Dieter Degowski, Hans-Jürgen Rösner, Herbert Schnoor, Rainer Fromm, Silke Bischoff, Wolfgang H. Schöning, Eckhard Mordhorst, Ines Falk, Marion Löblich, Udo Röbel

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.