Completed - GERMAN, ENGLISH, ITALIAN - Comedy - 82 minutes
A black comedy set in the world of management consultants that pokes fun at the trend towards corporate team events.
Year of production : 2015 Director(s) : Philip KOCH Writer(s) : Philip KOCH, Anna Katrin SCHNEIDER Cast : Volker BRUCH, Sascha Alexander GERSAK, Vicky KRIEPS, Stefan KONARSKE, Lavinia WILSON, Samuel FINZI, Giorgia SINICORNI, Stefano CASSETTI Producer(s) : Tobias WALKER (Walker+Worm Film GmbH & Co. KG), Philipp WORM (Walker+Worm Film GmbH & Co. KG)
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, HR manager Vanessa is observing what‘s happening via video surveillance and now has to find a way to keep the hostage situation from escalating...
Country(ies) : GERMANY
Zurich FF 2015 Focus: Switzerland, Germany, Austria