54 Stunden Angst: Das Geiseldrama von Gladbeck (1998)
1h 35m
Running Time
August 16, 1998Release Date

54 Stunden Angst: Das Geiseldrama von Gladbeck (1998)
1h 35m
Running Time
August 16, 1998Release Date
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Plot.
It was the most spectacular hostage situation and at the same time one of the most sensational crimes in German criminal history: the Gladbeck hostage drama kept Germany in suspense from August 16-18, 1988. 54 hours of fear. On August 16, shortly before 8 a.m., Gladbeck, northern Ruhr area. Hooded and armed with MPs, Hans-Jürgen Rösner and Dieter Degowski penetrate a bank. They take two bank employees hostage, want an escape car and a ransom of 300,000 marks. What then followed with an odyssey through the Ruhr area, northern Germany and the Netherlands was a scenario in which all those involved - perpetrators and victims, police and journalists - lost control over their actions. In the end there were three deaths, many injured, grief and anger, mutual blame and the attempt to draw consequences for the future from the inconceivable event.
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Cast & Crew.

Henning Quanz
Presenter

Dieter Degowski

Hans-Jürgen Rösner

Dieter Philipp
Journalist

Silke Bischoff
Hostage

Siegfried Binder
Psychologist

Günter Ollendorf
Journalist

Wolfgang H. Schöning
Bank Executive DB

Bernd Meyer
Senator of the Interior Bremen

Hans Mathias Kepplinger
Prof. Political Science

Ulrich Kienzle
Editor-in-Chief Radio Bremen

Aldo Di Giorgio
Hostage's father

Stephanie Hinzpeter
Hostage

Marion Löblich
Rösner's girlfriend

Oliver Geissen
Producer

Otto Pfannenschimdt

Werner Dickhut
Media.
