Vier gegen die Bank is a 1976 German crime comedy television film directed by Wolfgang Petersen.

It was adapted from the novel The Nixon Recession Caper by Ralph Maloney[1] and was produced for the German television station ARD.

Hartmut Wredel, a respected lawyer, is left unemployed by the recession.

At his golf club he discovers that three other members have not paid their membership dues for a while.

The men, out-of-work actor Peter Pagodi, fashion designer Benedict Hoffmann, and garage owner Gustav Blümel, have also been hit hard by the recession.