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Classification: 15
Directed by: Hans Weingartner
Cast: Daniel Bruhl, Julia Jentsch, tipeErceg, Burghart Klaussner

Three twenty-something friends are brought together through a mutual discomfort with the way the western world is spiralling into a frenzy of capitalism and consumerism.

Not happy with staging protests in sports shops and handing out anti-sweatshop flyers Jan (Bruhl) and Peter (Erceg) reveal that they are behind a spate of break ins to mansions owned by the wealthy German upper classes. These burglaries are not in order to steal but are meant as a warning to the rich owners that their alarm systems can be by-passed and that they are not safe. Jan and Peter re-arrange the furniture and artwork in the homes then leave notes to the owners that they have too much money, and that their days of plenty are numbered.