Friday Film Fest: Steig. Nicht. Aus! (2018)

Fri. May. 21, 2021 - 6:30pm - 9:30pm
German with German subtitles
This thriller-action movie stars Wotan Wilke Möhring, who plays Karl Brendt, a successful fixer for a large building company in Berlin. He receives an anonymous phone call while he is driving his two kids to school.  The caller informs him that there are bombs mounted under the car seats which can be remotely activated or will explode if he tries to get out of the car. A high ransom is demanded. In the meantime, his wife thinks he wants to kidnap the kids. She gets the police involved who respond with a large number of officers. Among the officers is a bomb and terror expert played by Hanna Herzsprung, who tries to figure out what is really going on. Brendt is caught between fleeing the police and trying to save his children from the blackmailer whose identity is revealed in the riveting ending.
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