Outside the Box
Outside the Box
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
Volker Bruch
as Frederick Schopner
Samuel Finzi
as Peter Kraußmann
Frederick Lau
as Paul
Vicky Krieps
as Yvonne von Geseke
Lavinia Wilson
as Vanessa Kramer
Hanns Zischler
as Bruno Bickstein
Stefan Konarske
as Michel Grandier
Richard Sammel
as Sergeant Mallach
Anian Zollner
as Buiz Journalist
Anton Algrang
as Wirtschaftsblatt Journalist
Kida Khodr Ramadan
as Samy
Stefano Cassetti
as Leo Locatelli
Giorgia Sinicorni
as Vicky Rossi
