
When the president of the "Property Compensation Society" - the organization of thieves - is refused the hand of the prime minister's daughter, the whole guild is outraged and decides to go on strike. The burglars celebrate.


In the shadowed alleys of interwar Europe, where the line between legality and transgression blurs like smoke, Der Streik der Diebe (1927) emerges as a silent film that crackles with existential irony. Directed with a scalpel’s precision by Alfred Fekete, this Austrian-German co-production isn’t merely a comedy of e...


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" In the shadowed alleys of interwar Europe, where the line between legality and transgression blurs like smoke, Der Streik der Diebe (1927) emerges as a silent film that crackles with existential irony. Directed with a scalpel’s precision by Alfred Fekete, this Austrian-German co-production isn’t merely a comedy of errors—it’s a fever dream of societal entropy, where the collapse of crime becomes the harbinger of global ruin. The film’s premise is both audacious and absurd: when the president ..."
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1929 · IMDb 7.3


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