The Germans are coming! To snoop around and control the Greeks; because they are – as always – under suspicion of lying and cheating. With good reason! Joerg Geissner, employee of the Munich AVA bank, arrives on the Greek island Paladiki to check a loan granted some years ago. He has the suspicion that the hospital and power station set as collateral do not exist at all. But the Greeks aren’t foolish: Geissner, constantly accompanied by German-Greek Panos, a clever gigolo who ensures that Geissner won’t be too fast with his investigations, shall come and prove that there are no collaterals at all. An odyssey begins for the bank employee, him against the rest of the island. But the more Geissner gets to know about Paladiki’s people, the more he becomes aware of the significance of his own role: The result of his visit will settle the future of the island. So Geissner has to ask himself to whom he really feels responsible – the bank or the people of Paladiki.
Director
Aron Lehmann
Version
German / English / Greek (OV)
with English subtitlesProduced by
Dan Maag, Marco Beckmann, Matthias Schweighöfer
(Pantaleon Films, Warner Bros. Film Productions Germany, ARRI Media)Cast
Christoph Maria Herbst, Adam Bousdoukos, Akillas Karazisis, Christos Valavanidis, Giorgos Kotanidis, Errikos Litsis, Georgia Tsagaraki, Kleopatra Markou
Genre
Comedy
Running Time
89 min.
Release
November 26, 2015
Festivals
Busan International Film Festival 2015 (Flash Forward) | Miami International Film festival 2016 | Buzau International Film Festival 2016 (Opening film) | Shanghai International Film Festival 2016 | Comedy Cluj | Diaspora IFF (Canada)
Awards
Audience Award at Busan International Film Festival 2015
Year
2015
Status
completed
credits not contractual