SDR, Stuttgart

German TV-movie.

Former classmates at a school in the Southern Germany city of Ulm, Jewish and non-Jewish, recall their childhood in Nazi Germany.

It's Loriot's birthday. Reason enough to show him as he really is. Evelyn Hamann interviews him in the TV studio where he always records his show. A lot of guests are invited, mostly people who played in Loriot's show, and a big surprise is announced for the end. - This fake celebration shows Loriot as a bitter old man, his guests as humorless bourgeois and Evelyn Hamann as an overtaxed presenter who can't save the show.

About the the hostage-taking/bank-robbing gangster Dieter Degowski and a recap of the crimes he committed with Hans-Jürgen Rösner during the Gladbeck hostage drama in August 1988. Some of the relatives of Degowski, along with his Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst, plus the actual hostages and friends of those killed talk about the trauma they were involuntarily involved in.