The director Frank Beyer and the writer Wolfgang Kohlhaase were awarded the Ernst Lubitsch Prize in 1990 for the captivating crime comedy starring Götz George, Rolf Hoppe, and Otto Sanders. Berlin, 1946: Former navy cook Walter Graf and his criminal partner, Erwin Lubowitz, plan a major heist with vault specialist Bruno Markward, who has already done twenty years in prison: they intend to rob the payroll from the Reichsbahn vault. To this end, they have opened a fake real estate office across from the building and are surveying the area. When they begin to dig a tunnel, they encounter groundwater. Subsequently, more people have to be brought into the plan than professional Markward likes. However, the operation is ultimately successful. Although those involved exercise the utmost caution, the police soon catch on to them…