Das Perfekte Geheimnis

115 min. | Director Bora Drachtkin | 2019 Germany | German with English subtitles | PAL

The ensemble film is a remake of the Italian film Perfetti Sconosciuti (Totally Unknown) by Paolo Genovese from 2016. It is about seven friends who over dinner together put their trust to the test by agreeing to share all incoming messages and calls on their cell phones with those present during dinner. “Three women and four men: Everyone has a mobile phone, which makes a total of seven mobile phones. When the friends come together for dinner one evening, they suddenly come up with an idea. They play a game: Everyone puts their cell phone in the middle of the table and no matter who gets which pictures or messages sent, no matter how brief - everything has to be shared with the others. Telephone calls are only allowed via the loudspeaker. But what starts as an entertaining pastime, which should bring a little tension in the evening, soon leads to some embarrassing and tense situations full of surprises. And soon, not only the mood threatens to tilt, the long-standing relationships are at stake through the discovery of explosive lies and secrets at stake.”