At a bank robbery in Dusseldorf Philip Kramer has captured two million mark. With the money in his luggage, he travels to Munich, where his ex-wife is supposed to help him "washing" the millions. However, a couple is after his money since the got a tip from a corrupt police officer.
The subtitle of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s first feature, from 1965, “Only Violence Helps Where Violence Reigns,” suggests the fierce political program evoked by their rigorous aesthetic. The pretext of the film, set in Cologne, is Heinrich Bll’s novel “Billiards at Half Past Nine,” which they strip down to a handful of stark events and film with a confrontational...
