Don't. Get. Out!
Don't. Get. Out! (German: Steig. Nicht. Aus!) is a 2018 German thriller film written, co-produced and directed by Christian Alvart. The film stars Wotan Wilke Möhring as a man who is contacted by a mysterious man demanding him to get an amount of money or he'll explode his car with him and his children inside. The movie is a remake of the Spanish thriller Retribution (2015).[1]
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German | Steig. Nicht. Aus! |
Directed by | Christian Alvart |
Produced by | Christian Alvart Siegfried Kamml Timm Oberwelland |
Written by | Christian Avart (screenplay) Alberto Marini (original screenplay) |
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Music by | Christoph Schauer |
Cinematography | Christoph Krauss |
Edited by | Marc Hofmeister Theo Strittmatter |
Production company | Syrreal Entertainment Telepool Traumfabrik Babelsberg Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen Studio Babelsberg |
Distributed by | Constantin-Film (Austria) NFP Marketing & Distribution (Germany) |
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Running time | 109 minutes |
Country | Germany |
Language | German |
Budget | €2,500,000 (estimated) |
Plot
Karl Brendt, a middle-aged man, is taking his children to the school when he gets an anonymous call from someone claiming that there's a bomb under his car's seats. The caller threats to blow the bomb, killing him and his children, if Brendt does not get him a large sum of money.
Cast
- Wotan Wilke Möhring as Karl Brendt
- Hannah Herzsprung as Pia Zach
- Emily Kusche as Josefine Brendt
- Carlo Thoma as Marius Brendt
- Christiane Paul as Simone Brendt
- Marc Hosemann as Lukas
- Fahri Yardim as Omar Cicek
Production
Don't. Get. Out! is a remake of the Spanish thriller Retribution. The film was shot for about 7 weeks between March 22 and May 6, 2017, in Berlin.[2][3]
Release
Reception
Sascha Westphal from the film magazine "epd Film" gave Don't. Get. Out! four out of five stars and wrote praising its cinematography and pace.[1] Jaschar Marktanner writing for the website "film-rezensionen.de" praised Emily Kusche performance, but criticized the film's lack of consistency and originality.[4] Bianka Piringer from the web portal "Kino-Zeit" also criticized the film for its inconsistencies and stated that despite its promising beginning the movie sinks in the mediocrity at the end.[5]
References
- Westphal, Sascha. "Kritik zu Steig. Nicht. Aus!". epd Film (in German). Retrieved 29 March 2019.
- ""Steig. Nicht. Aus!": la versión alemana de "El desconocido"". La Voz de Galícia (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 March 2019.
- "Se rueda en Alemania el primer remake de 'El desconocido' de los tres previstos". Audiovisual 451 (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 March 2019.
- Marktanner, Jaschar. "Steig. Nicht. Aus!". film-rezensionen.de (in German). Retrieved 29 March 2019.
- Piringer, Bianka. "Steig. Nicht. Aus! (2017)". Kino-Zeit (in German). Retrieved 29 March 2019.