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Lina Braake (1975)
Directed by Bernhard Sinkel
Comedy, Drama · 1h 28m
After the death of the owner of the house Lina Braake is living in, the house is accrued to the bank. During the complete refurbishment of the building, the 81-year old woman is thrown out of her flat and is put in an old people′s home. There she meets 84-year old Gustaf. Together, the lively seniors come up with a plan to trick the bank with a smart credit fraud and take their revenge. They need the money to buy a country house on Sardinia and leave Germany for good. Although their coup proves to be successful, the bank soon finds Lina. But due to her old age she cannot be tried anymore.
Cast
Lina Carstens
Fritz Rasp
Herbert Bötticher
Erica Schramm
Benno Hoffmann
Oskar von Schab
Gustl Datz
Rainer Basedow
Wilfried Klaus
Ellen Frank
Walter Sedlmayr
Crew
- Director
- Bernhard Sinkel
- Writer
- Bernhard Sinkel
- Editor
- Heidi Genée
- Producer
- Bernhard Sinkel
Details
- Release date
- 1975-07-11
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- German
- Countries
- Germany
- Production
- Bernhard Sinkel Filmproduktion, WDR