Outside the Box

1h 24min

Comedy

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…

Production Companies

ARTE

Walker & Worm Film

ZDF

Cast

Volker Bruch

Volker Bruch

Frederick Schopner
Samuel Finzi

Samuel Finzi

Peter KrauĂźmann
Vicky Krieps

Vicky Krieps

Yvonne von Geseke
Lavinia Wilson

Lavinia Wilson

Vanessa Kramer
Hanns Zischler

Hanns Zischler

Bruno Bickstein
Stefan Konarske

Stefan Konarske

Michel Grandier
Richard Sammel

Richard Sammel

Sergeant Mallach
Anian Zollner

Anian Zollner

Buiz Journalist
Michael Rast

Michael Rast

Journalist
Anton Algrang

Anton Algrang

Wirtschaftsblatt Journalist
Stefano Cassetti

Stefano Cassetti

Leo Locatelli

Release date

1st Jul 2015

Status

Released

Spoken languages

English, Deutsch, Italiano