Money

Story

Synopsis

One day, Carmen Müller realizes that her husband Werner has been unemployed for months and has accumulated debts of 80,000 DM in their bank account. She comes up with a plan to rob her bank. When the branch manager and neighbor Lothar Fuchs, whom Carmen has always envied for his beauty and wealth, recognizes her, she takes him hostage. In their hideout in the Allgäu, the banker falls in love with the housewife, just as Werner and Fuchs' mistress Gabriele grow closer. The quartet form an alliance and defraud the bank together. Having come into money so suddenly, the Müllers don't feel comfortable either and secretly distribute their fortune around the neighborhood.

Director

Doris Dörrie

Writers

Michael Juncker, Doris Dörrie

Language

German

Country

Germany

Release date

15 March 1989

Ensemble

Cast

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  Billie Zöckler

  Carmen Müller

• 

  Uwe Ochsenknecht

  Werner Müller

• Sybille Waury

  Natascha Müller

• Fabian Koerner

  Jean-Jacques Müller

• 

  Sunnyi Melles

  Gabriele Gessmann

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  August Zirner

  Lothar Fuchs

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  Ulrike Kriener

  Eva

• Silvia Nentwig

  Frau Busch

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  Edith Volkmann

  Sekretärin

• 

  Karl Scheydt

  Personalchef