Gladbeck – Dokument einer Geiselnahme (2006)
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.
- Date of release
- 2006-06-12
- TMDB
- 6.0 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Michael Gramberg
Casting
- 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
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