Outside the Box

Outside the Box

84 mins | Comedy | July 1, 2015

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…

Outside the Box

84 mins | Comedy | July 1, 2015

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…
IMDb rating 5.4
Producers ARTE, ZDF, Walker Worm Film
Original title Outside the Box
Directors Philip Koch
Writers

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

Michael Rast

as Journalist