Outside the Box
2015, German. Directed by Philip Koch.
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…
- Runtime
- 1h 24m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- German
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Cast & crew
- Philip KochDirector
- Volker BruchFrederick Schopner
- Samuel FinziPeter Kraußmann
- Frederick LauPaul
- Vicky KriepsYvonne von Geseke
- Lavinia WilsonVanessa Kramer
- Hanns ZischlerBruno Bickstein
- Stefan KonarskeMichel Grandier
- Richard SammelSergeant Mallach
- Anian ZollnerBuiz Journalist
- Michael RastJournalist
- Anton AlgrangWirtschaftsblatt Journalist
- Kida Khodr RamadanSamy
Details
- Released
- 1 July 2015
- Country
- Germany
- Written by
- Philip Koch, Anna Katrin Schneider
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Outside the Box runs 84 minutes (1h 24m).
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Which OTT platform is Outside the Box on?
Outside the Box isn’t on a subscription OTT platform in India, but you can rent it or buy it online. (Checked 9 November 2026.)
What movies are like Outside the Box?
If you liked Outside the Box, try Hard to Die, Jimmy Carr: Natural Born Killer, Who Is Cletis Tout?.
Who directed Outside the Box?
Outside the Box (2015) was directed by Philip Koch and stars Volker Bruch, Samuel Finzi, Frederick Lau.