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What to Do in Case of Fire? is a film of genre Drama released in USA on 19 july 2002 with Til Schweiger
What to Do in Case of Fire? (2001)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 19 july 2002
Length 1h41
Rating67%
What to Do in Case of Fire? (German: Was tun, wenn's brennt?) is a German film directed by Gregor Schnitzler. It premiered in November 2001 at the German film festival Kinofest Lünen and was released to theaters in 2002. Part comedy, part action and part drama, the movie is set in contemporary Berlin and stars German action star Til Schweiger.
The film received mixed reviews, earning 52 percent favorable ratings from critics cited on Rotten Tomatoes.
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Synopsis
Set in Berlin, the film opens in 1987 to show a group of radicals battling police but soon moves to the modern day to present the same radical characters brought together once more by an act they carried out in their anti-establishment heyday.Actors
Til Schweiger
(Tim)
Nadja Uhl
(Nele)
Klaus Löwitsch
(Manowsky)
Aykut Kayacık
(Bülent)
Oliver Mommsen
(Konrad)
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