Directed by

Peter Thorwarth
Made by

Westside Filmproduktion
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Till Reiners, once a rock musician, is frustrated about his monotonous life. He works as a bank clerk and is married to Miriam. The petty criminal Nappo tries to apply for credit in the bank for the purchase of an old Ford Mustang, which is denied him by Reiners but lack of collateral. The next day Nappo attacks the bank in a Mr. T costume and is abandoned by his escape car driver. He wants to first take a colleague of Reiners as a hostage but interferes, so Nappo finally takes Reiners as a hostage and flees with his car in front of the approaching police.
On the run they get to an accident site, Nappo takes off his mask so as not to attract attention from the police securing the accident. Later they both wait for the next day in a remote cabin, they talk to each other, Till talks about his son, Nappo encourages him to sing, and they discover that they both like the same music. The next morning, Nappo takes his hostage with him to buy a car from the criminal junkyard owner Langer. There he buys the Ford Mustang, Till helps him down the price and Nappo releases Till shortly thereafter. Till arrives back home, a naked man in the marriage bed and mistakenly thinks that his wife Miriam has cheated on him.
Completely desperate he runs out of the house and meets there on Nappo. He has received an order from the junkyard owner Langer for the purchase of stolen securities from Albanians in Amsterdam and needs Tills help. They take Nappo’s girlfriend Nadine with them and set off for Holland together. On the way Till is recognized at a gas station by a clerk as a wanted hostage victim, but Till shows the man an arrogant Porsche driver as a hostage-taker, because he had approached him shortly before at the petrol station area. The gas station employee then beats the Porsche driver together and Till flees on with Nappo and Nadine. The incident recorded by gas station surveillance cameras leads the police to assume that Till Nappo is an accomplice.
After the deal with the Albanians in Amsterdam, the situation escalates: Till, who does not tolerate alcohol and has to bump into the business with vodka, freaks out completely, it comes to a brawl, without Nappo’s knowledge he takes the Albanians from the money again. In Amsterdam, all three experience a wild night, Till separates later from the other two, attends a concert of his favorite band Donar and is filmed there during the stagediving for a livestream, his wife Miriam sees him at home randomly in this stream. At the end of the night, the rest of the Albanian money burns in a police car stolen by Till.
Miriam, who had learned of the original hostage-taking late, set off for the Netherlands to fight for her husband. After the Albanians abduct them to squeeze their money back, Nappo helps his new buddy, who has desperately raided a bank to regain the money, and free Miriam in a showdown. Till is shot when leaving the bank and severely injured arrested, the further-fledged Nappo but later relieved him of a video so far that Till has to serve only a short prison sentence and soon return to his family.

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In Not My Day, Till Reiners is a man quietly suffocating under the weight of routine. Once a passionate rock musician, he now spends his days behind a bank counter, trading the rush of the stage for the dull predictability of loan applications and customer service. Married to Miriam and settled into a life that feels more like a sentence than a choice, Till drifts through each day with the resigned energy of someone who has forgotten what excitement feels like. His world is orderly, colorless, and waiting for something to break its monotony.
That break comes in the form of Nappo, a small-time criminal whose clumsy attempt at a bank robbery turns into something far more unpredictable. When circumstances force Nappo to flee with Till as his hostage, the two unlikely companions find themselves thrown together on the run. What begins as a frightening ordeal slowly transforms into an odd road adventure, as the captive and his captor discover they share more in common than either expected — including a mutual love for music that once defined them both.
The film carries a breezy, comedic energy, blending crime caper hijinks with the warmth of an unlikely friendship. As the unlikely pair navigates a series of misadventures, the story leans into the absurdity of two mismatched men finding freedom and excitement on the wrong side of the law. The tone is playful and irreverent, with moments of genuine connection tucked between the chaos, suggesting that sometimes life only truly begins when everything goes sideways.
At its heart, Not My Day is a buddy comedy wrapped in a kidnapping thriller, exploring what happens when a man desperate for meaning meets someone living entirely without rules. With its charismatic leads and a premise built on ironic reversals, the film invites viewers into a world where the worst day of your life might just turn out to be the most memorable one.
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