Break-Out to the Unknown

Feb 14, 2018

1h 28m

★ 5.1

Overview

In the near future: Europe is in chaos. Right-wing extremists have taken power in many countries. The democratic state that once was Germany has become a totalitarian system that persecutes dissenters, Muslims and homosexuals. Jan Schneider has stood as a lawyer on the side of dispossessed victims. When he learns that the regime wants to jail him again, he decides to flee with his family. His goal is the South African Union, which enjoys political and economic stability after an economic boom. A freighter is to bring him, his wife Sarah and the two children Nora and Nick together with other refugees to Cape Town, but the tugs abandon their passengers in much too small boats off the coast of Namibia. On rough seas, it comes to disaster, the little Nick is lost, and no one knows if he could reach the shore...

Genres

Thriller

TV Movie

Drama

Science Fiction

Production Companies

ARD

Break-Out to the Unknown Trailers

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Cast

Jan Schneider

Fabian Busch

Carolin

Sabine Palfi

Sarah Schneider

Maria Simon

Dirk Kaufmann

Michael Grimm

Michelle

Naima Sebe

Mr.Cooper

Maurice Carpede

Nora Schneider

Athena Strates

Nick Schneider

Ben Gertz

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