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What to Do in Case of Fire?
Their friendship was over, and that's just the beginning.
The humorous and touching story of six former creative anarchists who lived as house squatters in Berlin during its heyday in the 80s when Berlin was still an island in the middle of the former East Germany. At the end of the 80s, they went their separate ways with the exception of Tim and Hotte, who have remained true to their ideals and continue to fight the issues they did as a group. In 2000, with Berlin as Germany's new capital, an event happens forcing the group out of existential reason to reunite and, ultimately, come to terms with the reason they separated 12 years ago.
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Checked Jul 22, 2026
What to Do in Case of Fire? opened in theaters July 19, 2002. We don't have a confirmed streaming, rental or purchase option yet.
Synopsis
The humorous and touching story of six former creative anarchists who lived as house squatters in Berlin during its heyday in the 80s when Berlin was still an island in the middle of the former East Germany. At the end of the 80s, they went their separate ways with the exception of Tim and Hotte, who have remained true to their ideals and continue to fight the issues they did as a group. In 2000, with Berlin as Germany's new capital, an event happens forcing the group out of existential reason to reunite and, ultimately, come to terms with the reason they separated 12 years ago.
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Cast
Til SchweigerTim
Doris SchretzmayerFlo
Sebastian BlombergMaik
Nadja UhlNele
Matthias MatschkeTerror
Martin FeifelHotte
Klaus LöwitschManowsky
Devid StriesowHenkelCredits
- Directed by
- Gregor Schnitzler
Production details
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- German
- Original title
- Was tun, wenn's brennt?
Production
- Claussen+Wöbke FilmproduktionGermany