Available on Blu-ray for the first time outside Germany, thanks to Radiance films, The Cat is about a team of bank robbers — Junghein (Heinz Hoenig) and Britz (Ralf Richter) — who hold a bank hostage for 3 million German marks. Yet what the police don’t know is that Probek (Götz George), the true criminal, is hiding outside, directing their every move.

Directed by Dominik Graf and written by Uwe Erichsen and Christoph Fromm, this is a movie is planning and control. Probek thinks he has every angle covered, but he didn’t plan on the bank manager’s wife, Jutta Ehser (Gudrun Landgrebe). She may be even more in control and better at schemes than he is.

Unlike an American heist movie, this isn’t about action. Instead, it’s about the waiting, the moments in-between, the times where tension increases until ready to explode. It does, trust me, but this film has no problem waiting. That makes it so much more different than the robbery films that I am used to.

The Radiance Films limited edition release of The Cat comes inside a reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings. It has a high definition digital transfer newly graded by Radiance Films and overseen by director Dominik Graf, interviews with Graf, screenwriter Christoph Fromm and producer Georg Feil, scene commentary by Graf, a trailer and new English subtitles. You can get it from MVD.