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“The idea just was there… Just a plain sentence: I bet you cannot kill a human being.”

The graduation film of German filmmaker Niels Laupert, Seven Days Sunday is based on a true story that occurred in 1996.
The film tracks Adam and Tommek, two teenage boys living in the slums of Leipzig. On a random Sunday, bored of petty crimes they decide to up the ante and make a wager, the stakes being the highest they've known: someone else's life.
After failing and wounding one victim, the boys succeed on their second attempt - killing an innocent, and sending their lives into a spiral.
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D/S Niels Laupert P Thomas Bart, Niels Laupert, Alexander Dierbach WS M-Appeal L German w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2007/79mins