Veteran German director Wolfgang Petersen is set to make his first film in Germany for 30 years.
The as-yet-untitled co-production between Hellinger Doll Filmproduktion and Warner Bros. Pictures Germany is understood to be a remake of Petersen’s 1976 TV crime caper Vier gegen die Bank.
The TV film, made for the Ard network, was itself based on Ralph Maloney’s 1972 novel The Nixon Recession Caper about four members of an exclusive country club who decide to rob a bank to solve their money problems.
The new film is expected to star top German acting talent with Til Schweiger, Matthias Schweighofer, Michael ‘Bully’ Herbig and Jan Josef Liefers playing the leads.
It would mark Petersen’s first film in the German language since the internationally feted Das Boot feature film and TV series from 1981.
The crime caper would also see the director make his first film in Germany since sci-fi Enemy Mine, which starred...
The as-yet-untitled co-production between Hellinger Doll Filmproduktion and Warner Bros. Pictures Germany is understood to be a remake of Petersen’s 1976 TV crime caper Vier gegen die Bank.
The TV film, made for the Ard network, was itself based on Ralph Maloney’s 1972 novel The Nixon Recession Caper about four members of an exclusive country club who decide to rob a bank to solve their money problems.
The new film is expected to star top German acting talent with Til Schweiger, Matthias Schweighofer, Michael ‘Bully’ Herbig and Jan Josef Liefers playing the leads.
It would mark Petersen’s first film in the German language since the internationally feted Das Boot feature film and TV series from 1981.
The crime caper would also see the director make his first film in Germany since sci-fi Enemy Mine, which starred...
- 10/28/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
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