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Cruel Friends

2003 · 92 min Crime Drama Thriller
2.0 / 10 · TMDB

Bingo! Lukas, a twenty-five-year-old law student, is among the chosen few accepted to study under the distinguished Professor Arndt. At the start of the summer semester he switches to Munich University. Lukas is determined to head his class and win the 25,000 valedictorian scholarship – the first step toward a great international career. Among Lukas’s classmates are smart Alexander and his friends Marco, Anton and lovely Evelyn. Fascinated by their charisma, Lukas dreams of joining the clique. Although Alexander is his major rival in the seminar, Lukas courts his friendship. To complicate matters, he falls head over heels in love with Evelyn, the most desirable woman he’s ever seen. Finally a dream comes true: The clique accepts him. But the glamorous lure proves treacherous. Unable to keep up with his new friends’ high-society lifestyle, Lukas gets into ever deeper trouble. Concealing his financial problems, he becomes entangled in a web of lies…

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Original Title Eiskalte Freunde
Year 2003
Country Germany
Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director Ute Wieland
Runtime 92 min.
Rating TMDB: 2.0/10 (2 votes)

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The film constructs a tense drama by contrasting the academic world with the dark laws of a student clique. It explores the price of ambition and the blurred lines between rivalry and betrayal.

What lingers after viewing is a chilling sense of moral corrosion, where every step toward success is a step away from integrity. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Ute Wieland

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Watch alone on a quiet night, immersed in the calculating chill of ambition.

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