Outside The Box
Filmfest 2015
Germany 2015
Original version with English subtitles
(Original: German)
World Premiere
Director: Philip Koch
Section: New German Cinema
Frederick Schopner, a young management consultant, has been invited to participate in a special kind of teambuilding event. He and his colleagues will be chased across an outdoor obstacle course while being assessed on leadership qualities and their capacity for teamwork via video surveillance. Special highlight: the company has hired two over-the-hill actors to kidnap the consultants with unloaded weapons, keep them hostage, and to demand a high ransom from the company. A realistic role play with fun factor! But things don't go according to plan: the actors find the make-believe scenario so convincing that they decide to put the plan into action for real, using real weapons! Meanwhile, Human Resources manager Vanessa is observing what's happening via video surveillance and has to find a way to keep the hostage situation from escalating...
Cast: Volker Bruch, Stefan Konarske, Vicky Krieps, Sascha Gersak, Lavinia Wilson
Credits
Screenplay: Philip Koch, Anna Katrin Schneider
Director of Photography: Markus Eckert
Film Editor: Max Fey
Composer: Jessica Moss, Sophie Trudeau
Production Designer: Katharina Wöppermann
Costume Design: Lotte Sawatzki
Sound: Gunnar Voigt
Producer: Tobias Walker, Philipp Worm
Production Company: Walker + Worm Film GmbH
Distributor: Wild Bunch Germany
Director: Philip Koch
