Plot

A department store extortionist who in the late 1980s in Germany became an international media sensation and fooled an entire nation, receiving the nickname 'DuckTales Bandit'.

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" by The New Yorker. 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 case of a man of two minds, who became enemy of the state and folk hero at the same time.