Two fed-up wives prove crime pays better when you're not a mediocre man.
Adele and Sibylle, the two brides of narrow-gauge crooks Heinz and Hermann , are fed up with being just appendages . Together with fellow sufferers , they decide to pull off their own coups - and they do it much better , more cleverly and more successfully than their unsuspecting men... underworldand the police are at a loss.
Acting
Benesch and Stavjanik's delicious slow-burn from doormats to masterminds
Writing
Wives' competence versus husbands' bumbling—never explained, just shown
Director
Johannes Fabrick
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
A rare Austrian crime comedy centered on female agency, released when the country's film industry was dominated by masculine Heimat and thriller traditions.
Leon Askin, who plays the gangster Rutte, was the Austrian-born character actor famous as General Burkhalter in Hogan's Heroes—his final film role before his 2000 death.
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