A prequel, set before the events of Army of the Dead, which focuses on German safecracker Ludwig Dieter leading a group of aspiring thieves on a top secret heist during the early stages of t... Read allA prequel, set before the events of Army of the Dead, which focuses on German safecracker Ludwig Dieter leading a group of aspiring thieves on a top secret heist during the early stages of the zombie apocalypse.A prequel, set before the events of Army of the Dead, which focuses on German safecracker Ludwig Dieter leading a group of aspiring thieves on a top secret heist during the early stages of the zombie apocalypse.
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- TriviaBrad puts on a Richard Nixon mask during the Prague bank robbery. This is a nod to the 1991 heist movie, Point Break, starting Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swazye.
- GoofsA main plot point in this film involves agents from INTERPOL attempting to apprehend the thieves and getting thwarted while actively pursuing them. In point of fact, INTERPOL is not a law enforcement agency and none of their agents have any law enforcement or arrest powers. INTERPOL acts as a liaison between law enforcement across member nations and offers databases, technical and operational support to and between member nations.
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Korina: I've been reconning their systems for months to test their capabilities.
Dieter: Reconning? What does this mean, reconning?
Korina: You know, reconning. Fucking reconning. I've been reconning them. Now get out of my asshole, Mr. I Don't Want To Make Out.
Dieter: Ah, okay. Got it. Okay, reconning.
- ConnectionsFeatured in WatchMojo: Top 20 Bank Robbery Movie Scenes (2023)
- SoundtracksDas Rheingold: Scene 2: Zu Mir, Freia!
Written by Richard Wagner
Performed by Tomasz Konieczny, Antonio Yang, Kor-Jan Dusseljee, Timo Riihonen, Günther Groissböck, Ricarda Merbeth, Iris Vermillion, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Marek Janowski
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Army of Thieves introduces us to a bank teller, Sebastian (Matthias Schweighöfer), whose obsession is safe combinations. He practices at home seeing how fast he can open a lock.
Sebastian has a YouTube video about the great locksmith Hans Wagner. Wagner created four impenetrable vaults, named after the Ring Cycle: Siegfried , Die Walküre, Das Rheingold, and Götterdämmerung.
No one knows where Gotterdammerung is, but a young woman named Gwendoline (Nathalie Emmanuel) is impressed by Sebastian's video and wants him to join her in cracking Siegfried, Die Walkure, and Das Rheingold. He agrees.
He then joins Gwendoline and her gang, Korina (Ruby O. Free), Brad (Stuart Martin), and Rolph (Guz Khan). A frustrated detective Delacroix (Jonathan Cohen) and Beatrix (Noemie Nakai) are after them, but the crooks keep beating them. Meanwhile Sebastian (who later changes his name to Ludwig Dieter) is successful in opening the first two safes and stealing a great deal of money.
For Sebastian, it's the challenge; for Gwendoline, it's making history. The money is secondary.
When they reach the third safe, trouble brews. As bad as it gets, Gwendoline's jealous boyfriend Brad makes the situation even worse.
Very enjoyable film, with an excellent performance by Schweighofer as a man who leads a dull and somewhat lonely life and is introduced to danger and adventure by Gwendoline.
The entire cast is excellent.
In Army of the Dead, which was actually made first, a group goes after the Gotterdammerung during a zombie apocalypse in Las Vegas. The zombie apocalypse is going on during Army of Thieves as well. I can't give anything else away, but if you come across these films, see Army of Thieves first.
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- Nov 30, 2021
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- El ejército de los ladrones
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- Runtime2 hours 7 minutes
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- 2:1