Looking around for a suitable place to hold up, Andreas stumbles into a tailor's shop. What was supposed to last only a few minutes ends up being a bizarre afternoon for three men: the tragicomic of the less-than-expert robber, the cranky tailor and a customer - a know-it-all who drives the other two crazy. The mood constantly shifts, and the tables keep turning among the threesome. A black comedy with a twist.
Acting
Hader and Düringer's toxic chemistry is delicious
Writing
Single-location pressure cooker with surgical dialogue
Direction
Flicker keeps you complicit in every humiliation
Director
Florian Flicker
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hader and Düringer were already Austrian comedy royalty; this film weaponized their established personas against audience comfort. DIE BLECHTROMMEL this ain't.
The tailor shop becomes a microcosm of Austrian class anxiety — the prole thief, the petit-bourgeois craftsman, the wealthy customer, all destroying each other while the system watches.
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