Cold Feet

Plot

Denis is a young, unemployed petty criminal from Munich. He lives with his single mother, who urges him to find a job, and his siblings, who do not respect him. To settle his debts with the gangster Adam, Denis is forced by him to break into the secluded villa of the wealthy entrepreneur Raimund Groenert, who is in the hospital following a stroke. However, Raimund was discharged a day early and is now home alone. When Denis helps the man, who is lying on the floor, back into his wheelchair, Raimund's granddaughter Charlotte suddenly turns up. She is an aspiring police officer who was supposed to temporarily care for her grandfather until a professional caregiver took over the task.

Charlotte mistakes Denis for the new nurse. He goes along with the mix-up, as a police officer who is friends with Groenert is also present. His attempt to flee in the evening is thwarted by Groenert's dog. During the night, a violent snowstorm rages, making escape impossible. Unlike Charlotte, Raimund sees right through Denis immediately, but since he cannot speak, he has to defend himself against the crook by other means. A cat-and-mouse game begins between Denis and Raimund, during which Denis must face not only his criminal entanglements but also the challenges of caregiving and his growing affection for Charlotte.

Denis manages to call Adam. However, Adam does not believe him, thinking Denis has run away. Meanwhile, Denis and Charlotte grow closer after he warns her about her selfish boyfriend and helps her reconcile with her grandfather, whom she hadn't seen in 10 years. After Denis gets the power generator running again, Charlotte listens to an answering machine message from the real caregiver and knocks Denis unconscious. He confesses everything. Since they are still snowed in, they call a truce.

When the road is cleared, Denis says goodbye to return to Munich. Before leaving, however, he hands Charlotte a box of gifts from her grandfather to show her that he had been thinking of her all those years after all. While hitching a ride with a snowplow driver, he spots Adam and his bodyguard driving toward the villa. He rushes back to warn Charlotte. However, she and her grandfather have already been taken hostage to get to the contents of a safe that Denis had mentioned during his previous phone call. Using sign language, Denis manages to get the combination from Raimund.

In an attempt to fight back, Charlotte is kidnapped by Adam, and Denis is locked in the basement. Raimund manages to free him, and together, armed with a shotgun, they pursue the kidnappers on skis. The kidnappers crash into a snowplow, and Denis is able to free Charlotte, though he gets shot in the process. Charlotte and Raimund do not press charges for the break-in.

Some time later, when Denis is picked up from the hospital by his mother and siblings, his mother tells him that she was able to agree on three months of community service with the judge. Denis is glad not to have to go to prison, but he realizes that he must continue working as Raimund's caregiver. Charlotte and his mother had arranged this together as his punishment.

Cast

Heiner Lauterbach as Raimund Groenert

Emilio Sakraya as Denis

Sonja Gerhardt as Charlotte

Aleksandar Jovanović as Adam

Michael Ostrowski as Frank Peters

Gerti Drassl as Gerti Drassl

Alex Czerwinski as René

Ischtar Isik as Tasha

CrispyRob as Sanitäter

Roman Schomburg as Sebastian Brandt

Production

Principal photography began on 15 January 2018 in Austria and ended in March in Munich.