Whatever Happens Next

Nov 8, 2018

1h 37m

★ 6.7

Overview

A road movie about a dropout who leaves himself completely to chance. A parable about freedom, self-determination and the poetry of an undefined life.

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Production Companies

StoryBay Cinema

Koi Studio

Gieren & Pörksen Filmproduktion

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Cast

Paul Zeise

Sebastian Rudolph

Nele

Lilith Stangenberg

Ulrich Klinger

Peter René Lüdicke

Luise Zeise

Christine Hoppe

Flo

Eike Weinreich

Erwin

Henning Peker

Olaf

Niels Bormann

Annett

Eva Löbau

Sohn

Kasimir Brause

Tochter

Henrike Lange

Trauernder Sohn

Matthias Buss

alte Dame

Monika Lennartz

Two young men, Martin and Rudi, both suffering from terminal cancer, get to know each other in a hospital room. They drown their desperation in tequila and decide to take one last trip to the sea. Drunk and still in pajamas they steal the first fancy car they find, a 60's Mercedes convertible. The car happens to belong to a bunch of gangsters, which immediately start to chase it, since it contains more than the pistol Martin finds in the glove box.

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