Gladbeck – Dokument einer Geiselnahme

Overview

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.

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