Early Birds

Directed by Benjamin Kempf Siemens and Rainer Binz

With Hermann Beyer, Hark Bohm, Axel Werner and Horst Westphal

Three pensioners who live as subtenants on tiny pensions find themselves wanting to escape the sadness and mundanity of their everyday lives in old-age and poverty. They relish the thought that they could experience one last adrenalin-fuelled thrill during the twilight of their lives. With that motivation in mind, they set about commencing preparations for a big heist. Early Birds is a tragic comedy, a short film about poverty in old age, dignity and death.