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Feature Films
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HEMEL By Sacha Polak   By Sacha Polak
With: Hannah Hoekstra, Hans Dagelet, Rifka Lodeizen
Berlin International Film Festival (1st Feature Competition)
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BEFORE TOMORROW By Joachim Schoenfeld By Joachim Schoenfeld
With: Axel Buchholz, Regine Zimmermann, Axel Sichrovsky
Berlin International Film Festival (1st Feature Competition)
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BEAT DOWN By Deanne Foley By Deanne Foley
With: Robb Wells, Marthe Bernard, Tony Nappo, Janet Kidder Starring Marthe Bernard (REPUBLIC OF DOYLE), Robb Wells (TRAILER PARK BOYS) & Tony Nappo (SAW II, FOUR BROTHERS)
Sweet 18-years-old Fran White is prevented from wrestling by her father, a former pro. She runs away to join the tour of his one time rival Dark Thunder, meets her mother for her first time, a sexy ex-wrestler, and wrestles for her dreams...
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WHERE THE ROAD MEETS THE SUN By Mun Chee Yong By Mun Chee Yong
With: Eric Mabius, Will Yun Lee, Erick Avari Starring Eric Mabius (RESIDENT EVIL, CRUEL INTENTIONS), Will Yun Lee (DIE ANOTHER DAY, ELEKTRA) and Erick Avari (PLANET OF THE APES, THE MUMMY)
In a LA hotel named Normandie, a Japanese hitman with a mysterious past befriends a New Yorker manager living in the shadow of a mistake that cost him his marriage. Also in the hotel is a British backpacker who sleeps with a different girl each night. His careless nature eventually gets him and his new best friend, an illegal Mexican immigrant, in trouble. |
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BIG MAMMA'S BOY By Franco di Chiera By Franco di Chiera
With: Frank Lotito, Holly Valance, Carmelina di Gugielmo Starring Holly Valance (96 HOURS, DEAD OR ALIVE) and Osvaldo Maione (LOVE'S BROTHER, PROOF)
Rocco has it all: a great job in real estate, a hot car and a woman who will do anything for him and loves him unconditionally—his mum. But when he meets the gorgeous Katie, Rocco realises that he needs to make some changes. Enlisting the help of his zany neighbour Mrs. Cotoletta, Rocco attempts to counteract his image as a big mamma’s boy, and to discover the key to Katie’s heart.
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IMPLOSION By Sören Voigt By Sören Voigt
With: Sven Gielnik, Eye Haidara, Hans-Jochen Wagner
Thomas’ holidays with his father in Spain takes a turn when a boat with African refugees sinks close to their hotel. One of them is Djamile. Thomas decides to hide her from the Spanish authorities and, even worse, the African smugglers…
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TANGUERO By Emanuele Persico By Emanuele Persico
With: Omar Quiroga, Veronica Palacios, Jorge Juanatey
Tango-teacher Omar is forced to return to Buenos Aires and discovers a changed city. He meets relatives, old friends and Veronica, his childhood girlfriend. They remember the time they had spent together years before and decide to take on a difficult challenge... and Omar rediscovers himself in Tango! |
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BEHOLD THE LAMB By John McIlduff By John McIlduff
With: Nigel O’Neill, Aoife Duffin, Michael Mason
In order to save the neck of his junkie son, Eddie, a depressed accountant agrees to a mysterious pick up accompanied by Liz, his son’s girlfriend. In between moments of unexpected heroism and sporadic bird watching, Eddie’s dysfunctional humanity connects with Liz’s tortured past and a kind of healing begins. |
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SNEAKERS By Valeri Yordanov & Ivan Vladimirov By Valeri Yordanov & Ivan Vladimirov
With: Ina Nikolova, Ivan Barnev, Ivo Arakov, Philip Avramov, Vasil Draganov, Valeri Yordanov
Six young people escape from their failures - in families, love, money, ambitions. They escape from the aggression of the City to East of Hell - to the point farthest away, the seacoast. The clean beach brings them together to reopen hope in them all. But is such an escape at all possible? |
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MESH (WALKING) By Shiar Abdi By Shiar Abdi
With: Selamo, Abdullah Ado, Nujîyan Kılgı
Xelilo, a disturbed man, walks endlessly through the streets of the Kurdish village in the south east of Turkey. He is curiously being noticed by Cengo, a 12 year old boy, selling chewing gum. Their poor but carefree lives take a sudden turn, when the Turkish military takes power in 1980. The curfew and the resistance of the people become the centre of their lives with dramatic consequences.
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GARBAGE PRINCE By Raimo O. Niemi By Raimo O. Niemi
With: Jon-Jon Geitel, Pihla Maalismaa, Heikki Silvennoinen, Kristiina Elstelä, Milla Kaitalahti
19-year old Jed’s life is perfect, almost too perfect. Successful parents, lots of friends and success at school promise him a rosy future. However...Jed doesn’t know what he wants in life. Fed up by his parents’ career directions, Jed decides to leave it all behind. Without a plan, he gets on a train and ends up in a small town in Finland. |
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BLOWFISH By Chi Yuarn Lee By Chi Yuarn Lee
With: Kang Jen Wu, Vicci Pan, Angel Yao, Yi Ching Lu
Xiao-Zhun, a shy girl, decides to find a better home for her pet blowfish. A lonely baseball coach purchases the blowfish at an internet auction. When she takes it to his trashed home, they make passionate love in the surreal blue light of his aquarium. But their love staggers like a blowfish... |
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AMÉRICA By Sonia Fritz By Sonia Fritz
With: Lymari Nadal, Yancey Arias, Edward James Olmos
América's life at a small Caribbean village suffers the hardest hit when her lover takes their daughter from her. Fury and fear push her to run away. In her new life as a nanny in New York City, with support from relatives and other women, América finds comfort and hope. When she dares to dream of a life without violence, reality hunts her down. Will she survive to tell her story?
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LOVE ACTUALLY... SUCKS! By Scud By Scud
Hong Kong 2011
Love is life, life as it is. Not every love story is a fairy tale. After a dramatic wedding feast, unusual love stories unfold towards unexpected endings. Inspired by real life cases, LOVE ACUTALLY… SUCKS is about love that gone bad: a brother and sister in love but caught by the mother, a married painter falls for his young life drawing model of same sex, an intimacy between a dance school teacher and his rich but senior student, a lesbian couple one of which has role-play paranoid, a dreadful love triangle ending with the girl being beheaded…This film celebrates love that no one care but actual life is love, love as it is. |
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ROMEOS By Sabine Bernardi By Sabine Bernardi
With: Rick Okon, Maximilian Befort, Liv Lisa Fries
Handsome 20-years-old Lukas moves to the big city. Full of the zest for life, he meets the macho-driven Fabio, who seems to personify everything he wants to be. The attraction between both gradually develops, but how much are they up to risk for their feelings, when Lucas has to reveal his identity? |
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THE EDUCATION By Dirk Lütter By Dirk Lütter
With: Joseph K. Bundschuh, Anke Retzlaf, Stefan Rudolf
Jan is currently completing his last year of job training. He wants to please everybody. But that becomes increasingly hard. The pressure on Jan and his colleagues is constantly growing, due to the restructuring of the company. Frustrated and stressed, Jan seeks solace in fast cars and retail therapy. When Jenny joins the company as a temporary employee, a fresh love blooms. But Jenny's stay is short. Jan is caught in his inability to make decisions, in his fear to loose his job, his love and his status … |
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TICKET TO PARADISE By Gerardo Chijona By Gerardo Chijona
With: Miriel Cejas, Héctor Medina, Jorge Perugorría, Alberto Pujols, Enrique Molina
Eunice runs away form her father's abuse. Alejandro and Fito break into a drugstore and steal some pills to sell in Havana. They all meet in their way. They have no family. They have no money. But they have a plan: to buy a ticket to paradise… |
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THE TEQUILA EFFECT By León Serment By León Serment
With: Eduardo Victoria, Karla Souza, José María Torres
Ambitious young stockbroker Jose Fierro is tempted by investing in his own pockets. Caught by his boss, he gets involved much deeper in illicit financial dealings. He must fight against powerful political and economic issues, not only for his carrier, but also for his family's fate. While the whole nation's future is heading for a disaster… |
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MALU ON a BICYCLE By Flávio R. Tambellini By Flávio R. Tambellini
With: Marcelo Serrado, Fernanda de Freitas, Marjorie Estiano
Womanizer Luiz Mario, a nightclub owner, lives a frenetic life. Everything changes when beautiful Malu runs into him with her bicycle in Copacabana. Head-over-heels he falls in love. But their passionate romance is abruptly thrown into disarray when an enigmatic love letter is discovered… |
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silence is golden By Ewa Pytka By Ewa Pytka
With: Aneta Todorczuk-Perchuć, Jan Wieczorkowski
A magic comedy in which a voice-over actress, Inge loses her voice when a stranger, Peter kisses her and disappears. Inge fights for her voice using psychotherapies, magic and finally love, while at the same time Peter, illustrator can realize his artistic vision only finding his inspiration, Inge, his superwoman. |
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Luk's luck By Ayse Polat By Ayse Polat
With: René Vaziri, Aylin Tezel, Sumru Yavrucuk
An emigrated Turkish family in Germany wins the lottery jackpot! While the parents assume that their youngest son Luk, born in Germany, will contribute to buy a hotel in Turkey, he has other plans. Luk wants to record a song with his ex-girl friend Gül, which ends in a tragicomical catastrophe, guiding him to discover his real fortune. |
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blessed events By Isabelle Stever By Isabelle Stever
With: Annika Kuhl, Stefan Rudolf, Arno Frisch
New Year’s Eve, Simone decides to go out alone. The next morning, she wakes up in a strange car, next to a strange man. Few weeks later, she discovers she’s pregnant. Entirely unexpected Simone runs into the stranger again – the handsome Hannes – and is surprised to find out that, contrary to her expectations, he’s actually happy about the pregnancy and wants to live with her. But while asking herself if this could be the face of happiness, she creates obstacles on her own… |
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BLACK FIELD By Vardis Marinakis By Vardis Marinakis
With: Sofia Georgovassili, Christos Passalis, Despoina Bebedeli
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I'M NOT HARRY JENSON By James Napier Robertson By James Napier Robertson
With: Gareth Reeves, Jinny Lee Story, Ian Mune A grungy true crime novelist, Stanley Merse, has become obsessed with the subject of his latest book; Harry Jenson, a prolific serial killer. Convinced he's losing his mind he goes on a retreat to recover; but instead ends up with a traveller dead, blood on his hands and a secret he now has to try and keep from a lot of other people. |
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DECEMBER By Hilmar Oddson By Hilmar Oddson
With: Tomas Lemarquis, Lovísa Elísabet Sigrúnardóttir, Laufey Elíasdóttir
Starring Tómas Lemarquis (Noi the Albino) Set during the Christmas holiday’s season, DECEMBER is a sweet-natured and present-day coming-of-age tale dealing with rather harsh realities of a family breakdown in the run up to Christmas. Including excellent performances from Tómas Lemarquis (Nói albínói) and newcomer Lovísa Elísabet Sigrúnardóttir. |
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AMPHETAMINE By Scud By Scud
With: Byron Pang, Thomas Price, Linda So
A lonely fitness trainer has attached a passionate executive and fatefully fallen in love. The young men believe their love can bridge anything, even their difference in sexuality. It turns out that the addiction to love proves more fatal than the drug they apply for the purpose of love. |
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STOLEN DREAMS By Sandra Werneck By Sandra Werneck
With: Nanda Costa, Amanda Diniz, Kika Farias
Jessica, Sabrina and Daiane have dreams like all young women in the world. They live in a low-income community in Rio de Janeiro, sometimes working as prostitutes in order to survive and satisfy their consumer desires. However, even in this context of absolute uncertainty and lack of hope, they insist on loving, having fun and dreaming of a better future. |
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THE TENANTS By Sérgio Bianchi By Sérgio Bianchi
With: Marat Descartes, Ana Carbatti, Umberto Magnani
Your new neighbours sleep all day and party all night long. They receive visitors from the criminal underworld… Would you set against them or would you watch a foreseen crime happening next door? |
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LIFE IN ONE DAY By Mark de Cloe By Mark de Cloe
With: Tygo Gernandt, Matthijs van de Sande Bakhuyzen, Loïs Dols de Jong
In a world in which a human life lasts just one day and where every action is a one-off, a boy and a girl fall so in love that they cannot bear this existence where everything happens only once. In the belief that they can prolong their love, they flee to hell. |
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JORDAN By Stuart Culpepper By Stuart Culpepper
With: Gregory Zaragoza, Liezl Carstens, Isabel Kate Culpepper Five-year-old Jordan walks miles through the night in the wake of a car accident on an isolated mountain road. But when small-town Sheriff Gil Lujan finally locates the girl's missing mother, Jordan claims the woman is an impostor - and insists that her real mother is still waiting for help out on the mountain. What follows is a story of psychological suspense and danger about the ferociously powerful bond between mother and child - and how far each one will go to protect it. |
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MY TEHRAN FOR SALE By Granaz Moussavi By Granaz Moussavi
With: Marzieh Vafamehr, Amir Chegini, Asha Mehrabi
Shot entirely on location in Tehran, MY TEHRAN FOR SALE tells the story of modern day Iranian youth struggling for cultural freedom. It brings to the screen never before seen images of modern urban Iran, and reveals how young Iranian people live behind closed doors. |
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BLIND COMPANY By Alkinos Tsilimidos By Alkinos Tsilimidos
With: Colin Friels, Nick Barkla, Gloria Ajenstat
Geoff Brewster is seeing out his final days at the family’s isolated, coastal shack – walking the beach and recording confessions to his estranged wife, Sally. When his Porsche driving nephew, Josh, arrives unannounced, a tense game ensues with shattering consequences. |
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DIRTY MIND By Pieter van Hees By Pieter van Hees
With: Wim Helsen, Robby Cleiren, Peter van den Begin, Kristine van
Pellicom
Shy Diego struggles with low self-esteem, until he has a serious accident and wakes up as Tony T, a totally uninhibited free-spirited stuntman. A typical case of Frontal Syndrome? Certainly an ideal case study for young and ambitious neurologist Jaana. Everybody hopes that Diego will quickly recover. Except for Diego. Dirty Mind is a tragic comedy about the fine line between manly behaviour and behavioural disorder. |
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LOW LIGHTS By Ignas Miškinis By Ignas Miškinis
With: Dainius Gavenonis, Julia Maria Köhler, Jonas Antanélis
Karlovy Vary IFF (in competition), Warsaw IFF (in competition), Filmfest Hamburg, Pusan IFF, Brussels Intl. Independent FF, Lübeck FF, Leeds IFF, EU Film Showcase – AFI, Sevilla International FF (in competition), Cottbus FF, European Film Festival Segovia, Tallin Black Nights FF LOWLIGHTS is an atmospheric urban road movie, a love story and a buddy movie in one. Two men and one woman united for one night by a quaint ritual - night driving through the city streets. They discover new experiences, get close, find hope, love. |
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PERMANENT RESIDEnCE By Scud By Scud
With: Sean Li, Osman Hung, Jackie Chow
Shot in Israel, Japan, Australia, Thailand and mainland China, PERMANENT RESIDENCE is the life story of a man who indulges in thoughts of after life and passionately falls in love with a straight guy. |
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ADAM'S PARTY By Santiago Lapeira By Santiago Lapeira
With: Sergi Bitan, Rodrigo Garcia, Pedro Maria Atxa A young actor, who has made his coming-out and decided to live his homosexuality, becomes writer of best sellers. He is about to get married with the man of his life, when the ghost of a serial killer that lived in San Francisco in the 70’s appears... |
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RESCUE By Santiago Lapeira By Santiago Lapeira
With: Joe Lewis, Gisela Arnao, Manuel Medina Three extraordinary bandits decide to end their carrier with a last coup: the kidnapping of the son of a shady businessman. For what seemed to be an easy job, the violence falls over them like storm. |
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DANCE THE SALSA DUEL By Francis Expósito By Francis Expósito
With: José Ángel Vargas, Joan Toni Pou, Emilia Terradas Javi falls in love with Teresa, a Salsa dancer, who doesn’t pay any attention to him, so he decides to learn how to dance in order to conquer her, helped by a retired dancer. |
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BEAUTIFUL CRAZY By Chi Yuarn Lee By Chi Yuarn Lee
With: Amiya Lee, Yi Chiao Liao, Angel Yao
Xiao-Bu finds herself in a cat fight with Angel, Amy sleeps with Xiao-Bu’s boxer boyfriend, and Angel kisses Xiao-Bu... Three young girls fall in love, feel hurt, forget and have experiences which decide their future. |
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KADA KIEN SU KARMA By León Serment By León Serment
With: Blanca Guerra, José Alonso, Rocío Verdejo Starring Blanca Guerra, José Alonso & Rocío Verdejo
Every abandoned woman dreams of revenge on her husband. Karma gives Eva that possibility, when Joaquin, who left her for a younger woman, has to return to the family home temporarily invalid… |
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MEMORY By Matthias Luthardt By Matthias Luthardt
With: Franziska Petri, Paquale Aleardi, Harry Blank
Matthias Luthardt second film after PING PONG. Helene´s husband has been missing since a maritime disaster, but she is certain that he is still alive. One day he is right in front of her at a concert. A tightrope walk between reality and illusion. |
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TANDOORI LOVE By Oliver Paulus By Oliver Paulus
With: Lavinia Wilson, Martin Schick, Vijay Raaz, Shweta Agarwal
Sonja is a waitress at the "Hirschen" a traditional tavern in the Bernese mountains. She is engaged to her boss Markus and has never questioned it- not until Rajah begins courting her. Rajah is the masterful personal chef of a gorgeous Bollywood superstar, who is shooting a new film nearby. Unable to resist Sonja, Rajah ditches the film crew to work at the "Hirschen". Chaos erupts before long for the filmcrew and Sonja, who becomes trapped between two different worlds - represented by Markus' security and status, and Rajah' s charm and culinary magic, which she can neither elude nor resist. |
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AUTUMN By Özcan Alper By Özcan Alper
With: Onur Saylak, Megi Koboladze, R. Gulefer Yenigul, Serkan Keskin,
Nino Lejava
Locarno IFF, Sarajevo IFF, Montreal World Film Festival, Adana FF (Best Film), Bangkok IFF, Thessalonki IFF, Rotterdam IFF, Göteborg IFF, Cinequest, LA Film Festival, Vancouver International Film Festival, Middle East International Film Festival, Bergen International Film Festival, Kolkata Film Festival, Noordelijk Film Festival (Best Film), Filmfestival del Garda (special mention) Sentenced to jail in 1997 as a university student at the age of 22, Yusuf is released on health grounds ten years later. He returns to his village in the eastern Black Sea region and meets Eka, a beautiful young Georgian hooker. His love for her becomes a final desperate attempt to grasp life and elude loneliness. With the 1990s as a backdrop, the film at once documents and criticises a slice of recent history, exposing the irony, ruthlessness and reality of the period. |
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FINNISH TANGO By Buket Alakus By Buket Alakus
With: Christoph Bach, Mira Bartuschek, Fabian Busch
FINNISH TANGO tells the story of a man, who – on his quest of finding the easy way out – discovers his own humanity. |
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KATIA'S SISTER By Mijke de Jong By Mijke de Jong
With: Betty Qizmolli, Julia Seykens, Olga Louzgina
KATIA’S SISTER is an intimate portrait of a 13-year old girl, living in Amsterdam, who loses her Russian mother and older sister Katia to the world of prostitution. |
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THE LIVING WAKE By Sol Tryon By Sol Tryon
With: Mike O’Connell, Jesse Eisenberg, Jim Gaffigan Jesse Eisenberg, 2011 Oscar-nominee for THE SOCIAL NETWORK, starring in a comedy set in a timeless storybook universe.
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VILLA TRANQUILA By Jesús Mora By Jesús Mora
With: Pablo Rivero, Raul Medina, Maria Barrios A man travelling from Spain to Villa Tranquila (Buenos Aires) to visit his father is forced to experience life from an altogether different perspective after becoming stranded in a strange land where survival is an everyday struggle. |
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ELEPHANT HEART By Züli Aladag By Züli Aladag
With: Daniel Brühl, Manfred Zapatka, Jochen Nickel
Marko Stemper, 19 years old, comes from a disadvantaged background and works as a window cleaner. He accepts an offer of a dubious businessman to become a professional boxer. His father, an alcoholic, tyrannizes the whole family, so Marko's only joy in life is boxing... |
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