The Baldheaded Gang

The Baldheaded Gang

74 mins | Drama, Crime | Feb. 15, 1963

August 1961. The former Foreign Legionnaire, King, has collected a gang of hooligans, with whom he creates mischief in the GDR. After some careless work on a construction site, an event during which two people lose their lives, they move to a campsite on the Baltic Sea. With sputtering mopeds, loud radios, and occasional outbursts, the gang makes the vacationers' lives living hell. Unfortunately for them, Lieutenant Czernik discovers the connection between them and the accident at the construction site. To stop them from fleeing to West Berlin, Lieutenant Czernik and the police need to arrest them, one at a time, with King as the last.

The Baldheaded Gang

74 mins | Drama, Crime | Feb. 15, 1963

The Baldheaded Gang
August 1961. The former Foreign Legionnaire, King, has collected a gang of hooligans, with whom he creates mischief in the GDR. After some careless work on a construction site, an event during which two people lose their lives, they move to a campsite on the Baltic Sea. With sputtering mopeds, loud radios, and occasional outbursts, the gang makes the vacationers' lives living hell. Unfortunately for them, Lieutenant Czernik discovers the connection between them and the accident at the construction site. To stop them from fleeing to West Berlin, Lieutenant Czernik and the police need to arrest them, one at a time, with King as the last.
Producers DEFA
Original title Die Glatzkopfbande
Directors Richard Groschopp
Writers Lothar Creutz, Richard Groschopp

Cast

Ulrich Thein

as Leutnant Lothar Czernik

Rolf Römer

as Johle

Arno Wyzniewski

as Conny

Paul Berndt

as Helmut Ritter, Schriftsteller

Brigitte Krause

as Kirsten Köster, Journalistin

Jutta Wachowiak

as Marianne Pohl

Steffie Spira

as Opas Mutter

Erik S. Klein

as Abschnittsbevollmächtigter

Erika Dunkelmann

as Frau Pohl

Mathilde Danegger

as Piepels Oma

Irene Fischer

as Jackie