Where our lives, the wars and the perversity of this world can lead us — that is what the film "Breakdown Forest. Reise in den Abgrund" sets out to show: into sheer madness. The film is a game of life and death in which murderers, rapists, psychopaths, drug dealers and sadists fight unwillingly for their bare survival in the Valley of Pain. The protagonists even all pay for the privilege of being bloodthirsty killers. Martin Semmelrogge takes on the role of former soldier Eyck Rhoder, who has returned from Afghanistan. "My role has a certain charm. I'm a bit of a Tarantino figure. I just hope it doesn't come across too revoltingly." True to the motto "Man is the disease. We are the cure", as the script puts it, they all hunt one another's lives. The trigger for this bloody slaughter is the megalomania of the Ribbeck brothers, who research the XX chromosome as the dominant gene of the human survival instinct in order to create an invincible superhuman. To this end they stage a perfidious experiment as a merciless manhunt, in order to seize the alpha animal victorious in the struggle for survival from among the human lab rats — while the rest pay for this once-in-a-lifetime experience, against their will, with plenty of blood and with their lives."Breakdown Forest" boasts an extensive cast: with veteran stars such as Ralf Richter and Claude-Oliver Rudolph as well as TV celebrities like Micaela Schäfer and Dustin Semmelrogge. The idea for the story came from Thomas Kercmar, who actually sells insurance but has been writing action screenplays for the independent scene for many years. When he met the young producer, director and actor Roy Becker and told him about his idea for "Breakdown Forest", the project quickly gathered pace. The film is due to be finished in the autumn and to then take cinemas by storm. There are already trailers to be seen on the website: www.breakdownforest.de
A Deadly Game
