Adrenaline junkies playing chicken with cars—until your worst enemy is the one inside your head.
Mark and his friends spend their free time rather dangerously: They jump in front of cars for a quick adrenaline rush. To win back his girlfriend Nina, Mark has to be better than everyone else - but someone is sabotaging him. Or could it be that "someone" is Mark himself?
Acting
Jonas Helmerichs sells two personalities with just his jaw tension.
Direction
Gebauer stretches 17 minutes into existential panic—no fat, all nerve.
Editing
Quick cuts mirror dissociation; you feel the fracture before you see it.
Director
Lasse Gebauer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Lasse Gebauer was 19 when he made this—casting his own brother Jakob as Mark's stand-in/double, a meta wink at the film's fractured identity.
The car-jumping 'game' was inspired by real 2010s German teen trend 'S-Bahn Surfing'—Gebauer literalized the self-destruction.
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