Lina Braake

Lina Braake

88 mins | Drama, Comedy | July 11, 1975

After the death of the owner of the house Lina Braake is living in, the house is accrued to the bank. During the complete refurbishment of the building, the 81-year old woman is thrown out of her flat and is put in an old people′s home. There she meets 84-year old Gustaf. Together, the lively seniors come up with a plan to trick the bank with a smart credit fraud and take their revenge. They need the money to buy a country house on Sardinia and leave Germany for good. Although their coup proves to be successful, the bank soon finds Lina. But due to her old age she cannot be tried anymore.

Lina Braake

88 mins | Drama, Comedy | July 11, 1975

Lina Braake
After the death of the owner of the house Lina Braake is living in, the house is accrued to the bank. During the complete refurbishment of the building, the 81-year old woman is thrown out of her flat and is put in an old people′s home. There she meets 84-year old Gustaf. Together, the lively seniors come up with a plan to trick the bank with a smart credit fraud and take their revenge. They need the money to buy a country house on Sardinia and leave Germany for good. Although their coup proves to be successful, the bank soon finds Lina. But due to her old age she cannot be tried anymore.
IMDb rating 6.8
Producers Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Bernhard Sinkel Filmproduktion
Original title Lina Braake
Directors Bernhard Sinkel
Writers Bernhard Sinkel

Cast

Lina Carstens

as Lina Braake

Fritz Rasp

as Gustaf Haertlein

Herbert Bötticher

as Johannes Koerner

Erica Schramm

as Lene Schöner

Benno Hoffmann

as Jawlonski

Ellen Mahlke

as Scholz

Oskar von Schab

as Dürr

Gustl Datz

as Gruber

Rainer Basedow

as Fink

Wilfried Klaus

as Wenzl

Ellen Frank

as Mangold

Walter Sedlmayr

as Emil Schöner