Trailer
Year
2024
Length
90 min
Director
Ina Kessebohm
Billions Mike
‘Billions Mike’ is Germany's king of con artists - a master of deception, influencer and even world boxing champion. But is that even true? Can you ever believe anything he says? This crime comedy plays with the grey area between reality and fiction, because behind the façade of the dazzling conman Mike Wappler lies a story full of surprises and revelations.
Billions Mike is billed as a “humorous and twist-filled psychological profile” of Peter ‘Mike’ Wappler, Germany’s most infamous and flamboyant con artist. The film follows his first year of freedom from prison and his preparation for his latest scam. Anyone who listens to Mike Wappler sometimes almost forgets that they are listening to a calculating and extremely skilled impostor whose talent lies precisely in making lies and assertions appear as truth. We take advantage of this. The common thread is Mike’s own narrative– the viewer is always faced with the question: do they believe Mike or are they falling for his tricks? The multi-layered crime
Comedy is close on the heels of this seemingly charming senior gangster, while he tries to set up a life after prison in Mallorca and Dubai.
Credits
Written and directed by
Ina Kessebohm
Christopher Kaufmann (Fictional Parts)
Editing
Fabian Teichmann
Director of Photography
Matthias Bolliger
Christoph Rohrscheidt
Felix Striegel
Leon Daniel
Max Schlehuber
Dino von Wintersdorff
Music
Paul Timmich
Dorian Behner
Mixing
Pierre Brandt
Archive Producer
Thembi Linn Hahn
Florian Tropp
Post Production
Alexander Steyer
Production Manager
Jana Bolze
Ron P. Glavas
Marcel Rechten
Producer
Anne Breer
Nele Thumser
Executive Producer
Nadine Neumann
Produced by
Reinhardt Beetz
Commissioning Editors Amazon Prime Video
Jonathan Schöller
Andreas Hartmann
Sales & distribution
- Press kit
- Press photos
