Directed by:
Til SchweigerCinematography:
Adrian CranageComposer:
Martin TodsharowCast:
Til Schweiger, Moritz Bleibtreu, Luna Schweiger, Jacob Matschenz, Katharina Schüttler, Karoline Schuch, Heiner Lauterbach, Hannah Herzsprung, Herbert Knaup (more)Plots(1)
Max Fischer, an ex‐special forces soldier, is hired to protect troubled teen Nina; troubled because she witnessed a brutal murder and some very mean people want her very dead. Betrayed and on the run from the murdering arms dealer Thomas Backer, a man who will stop at nothing and anybody to achieve his goals, loner Max and orphan Nina draw increasingly closer as circumstances forge them from strangers to friends, their insecurity becoming trust, each one relying on the other for protection.
Turning to Max's former comrade‐in‐arms, the handicapped Rudi, Max and Nina's new found safety proves to be only temporary. Again forced to flee, they seek refuge with Sara, the love of Max's life and, unknown to him, the state prosecutor who has been charged with Nina's witness protection. It's now a race against time as Sara seeks to bring the two runaways into safety as the vicious Backer pulls out all the stops.
Little do Max and Sara know, however, there is a traitor in their ranks. Events pile onto one another, the body count rises until things climax in a furious firefight of a showdown: bullets fly and yet more lives will be lost.
(Berlinale)
Cast
Til Schweiger
West Germany
Best movies:
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997)
Head Full of Honey (2014)
Moritz Bleibtreu
West Germany
Best movies:
Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997)
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
Time You Change (2010)
Luna Schweiger
Germany
Best movies:
Phantom Pain (2009)
Rabbit Without Ears (2007)
Kokowääh (2011)
Jacob Matschenz
East Germany
Best movies:
The Wave (2008)
A Regular Woman (2019)
Never Look Away (2018)
Katharina Schüttler
West Germany
Best movies:
Generation War (2013) (series)
Ku'damm 56 (2016) (series)
The Promise (2011) (series)
Karoline Schuch
East Germany
Best movies:
Balloon (2018)
Time You Change (2010)
Dark Woods (2020) (series)
Heiner Lauterbach
West Germany
Best movies:
Line of Separation (2015) (series)
The Collini Case (2019)
The Experiment (2001)
Hannah Herzsprung
West Germany
Best movies:
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
The Reader (2008)
Who Am I - No System Is Safe (2014)
Herbert Knaup
West Germany
Best movies:
The Lives of Others (2006)
Nuremberg (2000) (TV movie)
Run Lola Run (1998)
Kostja Ullmann
West Germany
Best movies:
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Sources of Life (2013)
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Rainer Bock
West Germany
Best movies:
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Never Look Away (2018)
The White Ribbon (2009)
Teresa Harder
West Germany
Best movies:
Wings of Desire (1987)
The Wave (2008)
The Constant Gardener (2005)
Mickey Hardt
Switzerland
Best movies:
Murer - Anatomy of a Trial (2018)
Der Puma - Kämpfer mit Herz (1999) (TV movie)
Beauty and the Beast (2014)
Ralph Herforth
West Germany
Best movies:
Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997)
Short Sharp Shock (1998)
The Zone of Interest (2023)
Oliver Korittke
West Germany
Best movies:
My Life in Orange (2011)
The Year of the First Kiss (2002)
How to Be Really Bad (2018)
Manou Lubowski
West Germany
Best movies:
Das Jesus Video (2002) (TV movie)
Guardian Angel (2012)
Jasper: Journey to the End of the World (2008)
Antoine Monot Jr.
West Germany
Best movies:
Who Am I - No System Is Safe (2014)
The Experiment (2001)
Gigantics (1999)
Axel Stein
West Germany
Best movies:
My Brother Simple (2017)
Barefoot (2005)
How to Be Really Bad (2018)
Jytte-Merle Böhrnsen
West Germany
Best movies:
It's Just a Phase, Honey (2021)
Guardian Angel (2012)
The Path (2022)
Fahri Yardim
West Germany
Best movies:
Head Full of Honey (2014)
Mogadishu Welcome (2008) (TV movie)
Almanya: Welcome to Germany (2011)