Schrotten!
Years ago, Mirko left his father's scrap yard in the provinces to make something better of himself in the distant city. Then his father dies in an accident. Mirko Talhammer is beyond himself when two…
Schrotten!
Years ago, Mirko left his father's scrap yard in the provinces to make something better of himself in the distant city. Then his father dies in an accident. Mirko Talhammer is beyond himself when two strange guys show up in his noble insurance office and remind him where he really comes from: from a scrapyard in the provinces, where careers are not what counts, other things are more important: scrapping things, the family, and every once in a while, a nice fist fight. Mirko left all that behind, but his father messes things up big time when he dies and leaves his son the run down scrapyard - together with his brother Letscho. And Letscho is still ticked off that Mirko deserted the clan. But soon the brothers realize that the Talhammers only have a future if they can pull themselves together and fulfill their father's last wish: to rob a train like real professionals! The coup itself is like a suicide mission, but then Kercher, the Talhammer's biggest nemesis, gets wind of things... Mirko Talhammer was his father Vito's designated successor as head of the semi-nomadic family's scrapyard, dependent on petty metal robberies, but left that to his dumber brother Letscho, studying and starting an insurance office in Hamburg. After Vito's death, two hard-handed henchmen remind Mirko he inherited half the scrapyard as his father died and must convince unwilling, vindictively-hostile co-heir brother Letscho, to sell and move. Instead Mirko finds himself drawn into Vito's posthumous 'master plan' to literally steal a trainload of copper for the Talhammers as nest-egg, but even as he gives the ignorant plan a learned makeover, it goes pear-shaped due to the traitorous rival-fence Wolfgang Kercher, so the clan must come up with a cunning plan C. —KGF Vissers Mirko Talhammer, in his mid-30s, ambitious and self-confident, is completely absorbed in his job: Thanks to shady practices, he has risen to become the company's star salesman. But his Ponzi scheme is in danger of being exposed. Mirko needs a lot of money fast if he doesn't want to lose everything he has built up. As if that wasn't enough, two shady characters suddenly appear in his insurance office: Träumchen and Schmied, two junkers from Mirko's home town. They have come to take the prodigal son home - to his father Fiete's scrap yard. Suddenly, Mirko finds himself with a bloody nose on the back of a truck that is transporting him back home. He learns that his father Fiete has died and left him the scrapyard - together with his younger brother Letscho, who is still furious that Mirko has left the family in the lurch. He wants to leave as soon as possible. But after Fiete's funeral, he is approached by entrepreneur Wolfgang Kercher, who has long been keen on the Talhammers' scrapyard. He makes Mirko an offer that he cannot refuse in his precarious situation. Now he just has to persuade Letscho to sell, who doesn't want to know anything about it: "Better dead than a slave!" is his motto. Mirko doesn't want to go home empty-handed, so he takes up residence in Fiete's old office. There he notices some signs that his father has carved into a picture frame. Mirko, still a junkie at heart, knows how to decipher the signs and finds out what the clan is planning: a train robbery. Luzi, who holds the whole place together, lets him in on the exact plan. —Arte
Schrotten!
Comedy,Crime
Film Details
Years ago, Mirko left his father's scrap yard in the provinces to make something better of himself in the distant city. Then his father dies in an accident. Mirko Talhammer is beyond himself when two strange guys show up in his noble insurance office and remind him where he really comes from: from a scrapyard in the provinces, where careers are not what counts, other things are more important: scrapping things, the family, and every once in a while, a nice fist fight.
Mirko left all that behind, but his father messes things up big time when he dies and leaves his son the run down scrapyard - together with his brother Letscho. And Letscho is still ticked off that Mirko deserted the clan. But soon the brothers realize that the Talhammers only have a future if they can pull themselves together and fulfill their father's last wish: to rob a train like real professionals! The coup itself is like a suicide mission, but then Kercher, the Talhammer's biggest nemesis, gets wind of things...
Mirko Talhammer was his father Vito's designated successor as head of the semi-nomadic family's scrapyard, dependent on petty metal robberies, but left that to his dumber brother Letscho, studying and starting an insurance office in Hamburg. After Vito's death, two hard-handed henchmen remind Mirko he inherited half the scrapyard as his father died and must convince unwilling, vindictively-hostile co-heir brother Letscho, to sell and move. Instead Mirko finds himself drawn into Vito's posthumous 'master plan' to literally steal a trainload of copper for the Talhammers as nest-egg, but even as he gives the ignorant plan a learned makeover, it goes pear-shaped due to the traitorous rival-fence Wolfgang Kercher, so the clan must come up with a cunning plan C.
—KGF Vissers Mirko Talhammer, in his mid-30s, ambitious and self-confident, is completely absorbed in his job: Thanks to shady practices, he has risen to become the company's star salesman. But his Ponzi scheme is in danger of being exposed. Mirko needs a lot of money fast if he doesn't want to lose everything he has built up.
As if that wasn't enough, two shady characters suddenly appear in his insurance office: Träumchen and Schmied, two junkers from Mirko's home town. They have come to take the prodigal son home - to his father Fiete's scrap yard. Suddenly, Mirko finds himself with a bloody nose on the back of a truck that is transporting him back home.
He learns that his father Fiete has died and left him the scrapyard - together with his younger brother Letscho, who is still furious that Mirko has left the family in the lurch. He wants to leave as soon as possible. But after Fiete's funeral, he is approached by entrepreneur Wolfgang Kercher, who has long been keen on the Talhammers' scrapyard.
He makes Mirko an offer that he cannot refuse in his precarious situation. Now he just has to persuade Letscho to sell, who doesn't want to know anything about it: "Better dead than a slave!" is his motto. Mirko doesn't want to go home empty-handed, so he takes up residence in Fiete's old office.
There he notices some signs that his father has carved into a picture frame. Mirko, still a junkie at heart, knows how to decipher the signs and finds out what the clan is planning: a train robbery. Luzi, who holds the whole place together, lets him in on the exact plan.
—Arte.