Beste Chance (2014)

Since they graduated from school five years ago, the friends Jo and Kati have not seen one another. While one of them travels around the world and has arrived in India in the meantime, the other one is struggling with the final exams of the university. But five years are like blown away when Kati one day listens to a worrying message from her friend on her answering machine. Immediately, she drops everything and drives to her home village in order to gather together the old friends from her school days and to look for Jo in India.

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Top billed cast

Anna Maria SturmKati
Rosalie ThomassJo
Andreas GiebelHubert (Katis Vater)
Johanna BittenbinderMarlene (Katis Mutter)
Heinz-Josef BraunWalter (Jos Vater)
Bettina RedlichRegina (Jos Mutter)
Martin SchickRuben
Ferdinand Schmidt-ModrowRocky
Volker BruchToni
Florian BrücknerMike

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