‘A Young Man with High Potential’ Now Available on VOD

The German thriller, A Young Man with High Potential, is now available on several VOD platforms as well as DirecTV and Dish. Check out the details down below!

Linus de Paoli’s A Young Man with High Potential is an unsettling psychological thriller about a shy graduate student and his increasingly unsettled relationship with a female student. The cast includes Adam Ild Rohweder and Amanda Plummer.

Synopsis A Young Man with High Potential

Piet (Adam Ild Rohweder) is a brilliant grad student but also painfully shy and socially inept. His lonely and sexually frustrated existence changes when he is forced to partner on a school project with the pretty and outgoing Klara (Paulina Galazka). As they spend time together, Piet misinterprets her friendly personality and awkwardly professes his love to her.

When Klara rejects his advance, Piet retreats into himself, becoming more obsessed with his “love” until one night when he drugs Klara and attempts to have sex with the unconscious woman, but when she begins to fight him off, he reacts in a violent way. What follows is a very long and horrifying aftermath that sends the man down a dark and despicable path. A disquieting tale reminiscent of the works of Lars von Trier and Michael Haneke.