Film

54 Stunden Angst: Das Geiseldrama von Gladbeck

1998 · 1h 35m · Documentary · Crime

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.

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

Otto Pfannenschimdt

Werner Dickhut

• Oliver GeissenProducer

Release date

August 16, 1998

Status

Released

Original language

German

Runtime

1h 35m

Genres

Documentary, Crime