Win One of Five Double Passes to See Kidnapping Mr Heineken

The story behind the kidnapping of one of the world's richest men.
Francois Finlay
Published on March 09, 2015
Updated on March 25, 2019

"There are two ways a man can be rich in this world. He can have a lot of money or a lot of friends but he cannot have both." Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Heineken

In 1983, a group of childhood friends (Sam Worthington, Jim Sturgess and Ryan Kwanten) pulled off the crime of the century: kidnapping one of the richest men in the Netherlands, the heir and CEO of the Heineken beer empire (Anthony Hopkins). The shocking capture-by-gunpoint in broad daylight on the streets of Amsterdam-resulted in the largest ransom ever paid for a kidnapped individual (35 million Dutch guilders - about 16 million Euros).

It was the perfect crime, until they got away with it.

To be in the draw to win a double pass, email us at [email protected] with the header "KIDNAPPING MR HEINEKEN", your name and mailing address as well as your favourite Anthony Hopkins quote.

Kidnapping Mr Heineken will be screening at selected New Zealand cinemas from 12 March.

Published on March 09, 2015 by Francois Finlay
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