I Am Scrooge2024

Director
Hannu Salonen

Actors

Misel Maticevic (Ulrich Strack)
Friedrich Muecke (Arno Funke)
Doguhan Kabadayi (Inan Coban)
Sonja Gerhardt (Sonja Balas)
Martin Feifel (Dagobert)
Carol Rovira (Anais)

Based on an extraordinary, incredible true story: A department store extortionist fooled an entire nation in late 1980’s Germany and became an international media sensation, labeled as the “DuckTales Bandit”.

Berlin, 1988. How to overcome an existential crisis as a failing artist, forced to spray-paint cars to make ends meet? Arno has the answer. A talented tinkerer, he uses his creativity for his extraordinary new purpose in life: Building bombs in his kitchen and setting them off in high-end department stores during the night as leverage for extortion. But what proves more difficult is evading the authorities. Detectives Çoban and Strack are hot on Arno’s heals, who has escaped with half a million. The man is fooling the police under his new alias “Scrooge McDuck”, leading to one of the most spectacular extortion cases in German criminal history. But Arno soon learns that money can’t buy happiness, despite the promises of capitalism. Now back to square one, he disappears – but Arno will return to ask for more…

A real-life tale of a man who became enemy of the state and folk hero at the same time.

“Presented with a lot of energy, with a passion for staging and a passion for acting. As entertaining as few German television productions.” – Film-Rezensionen.de

“Incredibly exciting.” – Prisma.de

“A successful mixture of comedy and drama and is particularly impressive in its execution: Hannu Salonen and his congenial cameraman Felix Cramer delight with a variety of very special visual ideas.” – Tittelbach.tv