Vier gegen die Bank is a 1976 German crime comedy television film directed by Wolfgang Petersen. It was adapted from the novel The Nixon Recession Caper by Ralph Maloney and was produced for the German television station ARD. In 2016 it was remade under the same title for theatrical release. Plot Hartmut Wredel, a respected lawyer, is left unemployed by the recession. At his golf club he discovers that three other members have not paid their membership dues for a while. The men, out-of-work actor Peter Pagodi, fashion designer Benedict Hoffmann, and garage owner Gustav Blümel, have also been hit hard by the recession. Wredel convinces them that a bank robbery is the solution to their problems. They successfully carry out the plan and even escape imprisonment because the police blame the robbery on a separate group of terrorists who were also planning to rob the same bank. Cast Harald Leipnitz as Peter Pagodi Walter Kohut as Hartmut Wredel Günther Neutze as Gustav Blümel Herbert Bötticher as Benedict Hoffmann Ingrid van Bergen as Uschi Blümel Christine Schuberth as Gaby Pagodi Karin Eickelbaum as Angelika Hoffmann Gitty Djamal as Christa Wredel Otto Sander as Bankleiter Hans Schulze as Hauptkommissar Röse Uwe Dallmeier as Kommissar Ludendorf Karl-Heinz von Hassel as Gangster Manfred Hans Dieter Trayer as Kriminalassistent Joachim Regelien as Erster Komplize Wolf Richard as Zweiter Komplize Ulli Chivall as Dritter Komplize Helmut Alimonta as Kfz-Meister Leopold Gmeinwieser as Taxifahrer Horst Pasderski as Feinkosthändler Production The film was shot in and around Munich in July 1976. References External links 1976 television films 1976 films 1970s crime comedy films Comedy television films Crime television films Films based on American novels Films directed by Wolfgang Petersen Films scored by Klaus Doldinger Films set in Munich Films shot in Munich German crime comedy films 1970s German-language films German television films West German films 1970s heist films 1970s German films Das Erste original programming