Jetzt oder nie - Zeit ist Geld (2000)

Director:

Lars Büchel

Writers:

Lars Büchel (writer)
Ruth Toma (writer)

Release Date:

14 December 2000 (Germany)

Genre:

Comedy | Crime | Thriller

Plot:

Three elderly ladies, Carla, Lilli and Meta, who, after their hard earned holiday money is stolen by bank robbers, decide to steal from their local bank. Along the way their are romances, arguments and a few other unexpected surprises.

Plot Keywords:

Bank Robbery | Bank | Senior Citizen

Awards:

2 wins & 2 nominations

Cast

Gudrun Okras	...	Carla
Elisabeth Scherer	...	Lilli
Christel Peters	...	Meta
Vladimir Weigl	...	Sven Krone
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Imke Büchel	...	Schwester Maria
Lars Büchel	...	Gefängniswärter
Eva Ebner	...	Mager Sinn
Max Freitag	...	Schäfer
Corinna Harfouch	...	Flora
Mark Keller	...	Knacki
Oliver Korittke	...	Verkäufer in der Imbissbude
Andreas Kunze	...	Meiners
Jürgen Prediger	...	Verkaeufer
Til Schweiger	...	Krämer 'Die Spinne'
Martin Semmelrogge	...	Bruno
Thierry Van Werveke	...	Josef
Ingrid von Bothmer	...	Lissy Schmitz
Gerry Wolff	...	Erwin Kischke

Also Known As:

Nach der Zeit (Germany) (working title)
Now or Never (International: English title)

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

Germany

Language:

German

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Australia:PG | Germany:6

Filming Locations:

Hamburg, Germany

Company:

Lichtblick Film- und Fernsehproduktion (I)

Dreams come true!!!

Three lusty, old women have saved a lot of money. It´s their last big dream to make a journey around the world on an ocean steamer. They go to a bank and want pay in their money - but just in that moment the bank is robbed out. Their money is gone! So what? They decide to rob out the bank by themselves. It´s now or never...

I think it´s a miracle that this film was realized. A story about three old ladies robbing out a bank? Nobody had the hope that it would be successful. The only one who believed in the script was Til Schweiger and so he decided to produce it with his firm "Mr.Brown-entertainment" (a figure in Tarantinos "Reservoir dogs"...). Director Lars Büchel didn´t make the mistake to create the characters just as joke figures. That would have been to easy. You don´t laugh ABOUT the three, you laugh WITH them, and that´s what takes them so believable and touching. A bittersweet movie about getting older.