Outside the Box
84 mins
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…
Michael Rast
Journalist
Philip Koch
Director
Alexandra Montag
Casting
Philip Koch
Writer
Anna Katrin Schneider
Writer
Tobias Walker
Executive Producer
Philipp Worm
Executive Producer
Jessica Moss
Music
Sophie Trudeau
Music
Max Fey
Editor
Markus Eckert
Director of Photography