Polarizing Polar: An Exploitation Film For the Modern Viewer
In the shadow of towering film production companies lived dozens of grindhouses, genres, and low-budget films deemed too “unclean” for the modern film audience.
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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…
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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…
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Genre:Comedy
Written By:Philip Koch, Anna Katrin Schneider
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Runtime:84 minutes
Studio:ARTE, Walker & Worm Film, ZDF
Cast
Philip Koch
Director
Volker Bruch
Frederick Schopner
Samuel Finzi
Peter Kraußmann
Frederick Lau
Paul
Vicky Krieps
Yvonne von Geseke
Lavinia Wilson
Vanessa Kramer
Hanns Zischler
Bruno Bickstein
Stefan Konarske
Michel Grandier
Richard Sammel
Sergeant Mallach
Anian Zollner
Buiz Journalist
Michael Rast
Journalist
Anton Algrang
Wirtschaftsblatt Journalist
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