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Breakout

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A film about kids with little else to offer apart from a well honed body, an overabundance of hormones and a high from their last line. Teenagers Nia and Pulpo hang out at the disco where Nia has sex with a girl he meets there, Foxy. On the way home, Nia and Pulpo are attacked by Spirit, Foxy’s ex. Pulpo is badly beaten up but the police intervene, and Nia ends up in a youth detention centre. He makes plans to escape in order to wreck revenge on Spirit, an eye for an eye, and part of his plan includes meeting Nicole, an attractive young lawyer.

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Budget

$--

Revenue

$--

Status

Released

Original Language

German

Runtime

97 mins

Rating

5.167/10

Release Date

18 January 2007

Country

Switzerland

Cast

Melanie Winiger

Melanie Winiger

Nicole

Nils Althaus

Nils Althaus

Marco Nia

Stress

Stress

Spirit

Roeland Wiesnekker

Roeland Wiesnekker

Schleier

Hanspeter Müller

Hanspeter Müller

Salis

Aaron Arens

Aaron Arens

Heinrich

Joel Basman

Joel Basman

Silenzio

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