Outside the Box
5.4
Frederick Schopner, a young management consultant, has been invited to participate in a special kind of team-building 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…
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Cast
15 people
Volker Bruch
Frederick Schopner
Known for
Generation War
Babylon Berlin
Samuel Finzi
Peter Kraußmann
Known for
Generation War
Unfamiliar
Frederick Lau
Paul
Known for
The Wave
Victoria
Vicky Krieps
Yvonne von Geseke
Known for
Old
Phantom Thread
Lavinia Wilson
Vanessa Kramer
Known for
Cassandra
Deutschland
Hanns Zischler
Bruno Bickstein
Known for
Munich
Black Island
Michael Rastl
Journalist
Stefan Konarske
Michel Grandier
Known for
The Young Karl Marx
Das Boot
Richard Sammel
Sergeant Mallach
Known for
The Strain
Andor
Anian Zollner
Buiz Journalist
Known for
Babylon Berlin
Luther
Michael Rast
Journalist
Also in
Before the Fall
The Chinese Man
Anton Algrang
Wirtschaftsblatt Journalist
Known for
Almanya: Welcome to Germany
13 Minutes
Philip Koch Director · Anna Katrin Schneider Writer Markus Eckert Cinematographer
First release May 19, 2015 · Produced in Germany · Languages English, German, Italian
Production
ARTE
Production
Walker & Worm Film
Production
ZDF
Production
Das Kleine Fernsehspiel
Production
Germany
Produced in
Languages
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
English · German · Italian
Release dates
France · May 19, 2015
TV
Germany · July 1, 2015
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Switzerland
September 28, 2015 · Digital
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