Date and Time: Tuesday, 7 October 2025, 7pm
Entry: Free (Seating on a First-Come First-Served Basis)
Venue: Siddhartha Hall, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi-110001, India
Venue Info: About | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Barakhamba(Blue Line)'
Area: Events at Kasturba Gandhi Marg
In the summer of 1988, a 22-year-old bank clerk robs a bank. But he doesn’t do it in the traditional way, shouting “Hands up!” with a gun in his hand. Instead, in a brilliant coup, the young father exploits a security gap at the bank where he works and diverts millions into his own pocket.
He uses the stolen money to abscond to Australia, from where he calls his partner back home in Germany to tell her what he has done. But she refuses to bring their young son and join him – he was not expecting that! His Australian hotel room becomes a gilded cage as his longing for his family intensifies.
He is presented with a choice: to lead the luxurious life of a millionaire, or to return to his hated humdrum life in Germany – and his beloved son.
“I stole that money for you and for him! For us!
What am I going to do now?”
In a mixture of feature film, documentary and animated film, the film tells the true and unbelievable story of an unusual bank employee based on original interviews.
Director: Sven O. Hill
About the Curator: Trisha Gupta is an independent writer, journalist, educator and curator based in Delhi. Since 2007, she has written on literary and cultural subjects for a wide range of publications, including being a film columnist and critic for the Mumbai Mirror, the Hindu Business Line, Firstpost and the Sunday Guardian. She studied history at the University of Delhi and anthropology at the University of Cambridge and Columbia University, and has been a Professor of Practice at OP Jindal Global University's journalism school. Her published writing is archived on her blog Chhotahazri.
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