Bank Lady

Hamburg in the early sixties: Gisela Werler (Nadeshda Brennicke) is a wallflower, a worker in a wallpaper factory, and at thirty, still unmarried. When she meets the charming bank robber Hermann Wittorff (Charly Hübner), her life changes in an instant. She quickly discovers that Hermann and his buddy Uwe (Andreas Schmidt) are bank robbers. Initially, she only assists them in their heists, but soon she becomes the driving force. Gisela leaves her old life behind and transforms into the "Bank Lady": clad in expensive coats and shoes, wearing a wig and sunglasses, she repeatedly stands at bank counters, politely but armed, and continues to amass more and more money. The newspapers have long since turned her into a sex symbol, and the entire nation is left wondering: Who is this woman? But investigators Fischer (Ken Duken) and Kaminski (Heinz Hoenig) are also hot on her trail.