Normally I don't expect much of straight-to-TV-productions from the German commercial TV-corporations too often the outcome is a clumsy attempt to copy American premium-big-screen-products by just transferring them 1:1 into German landscapes or cities and cultural contexts (without transition), resulting in overdosed action, unrealistic car-explosions, plot-holes, low psychological character-performances and idiotic shoot-outs "...where someone catches 14 bullets and wipes them away with a grin..." (Andrew Vachss, "Flood"-afterword, German edition). Contrary here: A group of friends starts a one-week-backpacking-tour through a deserted area in rural South-Africa. After two days the group discovers a dead parajumper in a pond. By searching him for ID they find a small steelcase full of diamonds, which the dead man obviously wanted to take out of country. The group argues what to do deliver the stones to the authorities and report the corpse or just steal the stones. Nevertheless the group has to walk on to their destination a boarded SUV at the next interstate, 4 days away. They take the diamonds with them to decide later. In the following the group realizes that they get stalked when the first one of them dies. Did somebody watch them taking the diamonds?
Day by day they lose more friends, leaving them behind buried under rough stonepiles. Desperation, paranoia, conflicts and distrust increase in the group which by not just dumping the stones- is already beyond the point-of-no-return.
The last survivors consider themselves safe, when they meet and accidentally shoot- an old prospector in the outback after finding one trekking-item at his camp that they considered lost 'til then.
But this production refuses such foul compromises and drags the characters on towards the deadly climax no quarters but a tension-curve to cut your teeth into! This film combines a credible plot, well shooting and editing with an excellent conduction, terrific sceneries and some of the finer but lesser known German actors (Anica Dobra, Aleksandar Jovanovic). It's surely one of the most qualitative premium flicks in German TV in recent years.
Day by day they lose more friends, leaving them behind buried under rough stonepiles. Desperation, paranoia, conflicts and distrust increase in the group which by not just dumping the stones- is already beyond the point-of-no-return.
The last survivors consider themselves safe, when they meet and accidentally shoot- an old prospector in the outback after finding one trekking-item at his camp that they considered lost 'til then.
But this production refuses such foul compromises and drags the characters on towards the deadly climax no quarters but a tension-curve to cut your teeth into! This film combines a credible plot, well shooting and editing with an excellent conduction, terrific sceneries and some of the finer but lesser known German actors (Anica Dobra, Aleksandar Jovanovic). It's surely one of the most qualitative premium flicks in German TV in recent years.