Gladbeck
Based on the true story that shocked a nation in the summer of 1988 and revealed the scandalizing amount of errors committed by the media and the police in a half-baked attempt to rescue hostages.
Cast:Sascha Alexander Gersak , Marie Rosa Tietjen , Alexander Scheer , Martin Wuttke , Ulrich Noethen , Johannes Allmayer , Amelie Kiefer , Zsá Zsá Inci , August Zirner , Lilli Fichtner , Albrecht Schuch , Riccardo Campione , Giolina Ardente , Vinicio Marchioni , Lara Brucci , Tatja Seibt , Uli Krohm , Moritz Leu
S1.E2 ∙ Teil 2
The hostage crisis intensifies when the bank robbers decide to hold a bus full of passengers to ransom.
S1.E3 ∙ Teil 3
After the bank robbery on August 16, 1988, Hans-Jürgen Rösner and Dieter Degowski are still on the run. They drive unhindered across Germany with their two hostages. A host of journalists is always there live via television and radio - a crime in real time. While the hostages are in mortal danger, the bank robbers are interviewed in front of the cameras, talk to passers-by and go shopping, while the police force and legislation changes again and again depending on the federal state and one access option after the other remains unused.
S1.E4 ∙ Teil 4
Even when the hostage-takers take control of an entire bus and shoot a little boy, the hitherto unimaginable media hype and the helplessness of the police persist. The crime kept the republic in suspense for 54 hours. When the police finally intervene, exactly what they wanted to prevent happens: Another hostage and a policeman die. The two kidnappers and their accomplice survive. Events that still have an impact 30 years later.
