Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.
Acting
Brühl's nervous intensity against Klaußner's smug vulnerability.
Direction
Handheld intimacy that makes you complicit in every bad decision.
Writing
Dialogue that weaponizes political theory against its own believers.
Director
Hans Weingartner
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in actual Berlin squats during the real anti-globalization movement—Weingartner cast activists as extras who later criticized the film's politics.
The Spanish villa finale mirrors the 1968 generation's arc: revolutionary fervor literally vacationing in bourgeois comfort. Justus's poolside confession is the film's thesis in one scene.
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