Bis zum Horizont und weiter (1999)

When petty criminal Katja Pfeifer is sentenced by Judge Beate Nelken to three years in prison without a suspended sentence, former excavator operator Henning Stahnke kidnaps the judge in his rickety Mercedes to force the release of the woman he loves. He delivers an ultimatum by phone to Katja’s defense attorney, who brings in the police. Stahnke takes the judge to his mother’s remote house and introduces her as his fiancée, Katja. As Stahnke’s mother and Beate Nelken become friends, and Stahnke and his captive grow closer, Katja escapes from prison and turns up where the three of them are, followed shortly afterward by the police. Stahnke and Katja flee to the nearby lignite-mining area. The police surrounding them prevent the judge from going to their aid as a mine railway train bears down on the couple…