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AKA: König der Diebe
Directed by: Ivan Fila
Starring: Iakov Kultiasov (Barbu), Lazar Ristovski (Caruso), Oktay Ozdemir (Marcel), Julia Khanverdieva (Mimma), Katharina Thalbach (Julie), Paulus Manker (Cardinal), Birol Unel (Caruso’s accomplice)
Country: Germany; Effed Up European Cinema
Language: German, Ukrainian (Eng subs); Effed Up German Films
Runtime: 01:49:06
Genres: Teen-Childhood, Human Trafficking-Prostitution, Old-Young
Plot – Spoilers:
Barbu and his adopted older sister Mimma entertain locals in a remote Ukraninan village with their circus acts, but the dream is to be in a real circus. The big-city circus seems to be the dream of many in the village and several families have already seen their kids make it big. The enabler is a German resident called Caruso who drives into the village every now and then, splashing money and the success stories of the kids he took with him. So when this great man shows an interest in taking him to Berlin, Barbu is thrilled and even convinces Caruso to take Mimma along with them.
Caruso and Barbu hit it off from the beginning. Barbu is innocent, trusting, smart and affectionate and Caruso returns this as much as his shitty ways allow him. For there is no real circus in Berlin. Just a child-criminal gang Caruso runs, with the odd kid sold off to a pimp. Mimma falls fate to this when she becomes Caruso’s losing bet in a game of poker. That’s one of the many poignant scenes in here – all that money collected through so much effort including deception, cruelty and exploitation, and all of it just gambled away in one single game of poker. In the end, almost everyone is treated sympathetically here. Even Caruso, as he cuts a lonely figure whose exploitation of others couldn’t buy him love and respect from the one woman he craved it from.
A little known movie that quite brilliantly captures trafficking in Eastern Europe.
I love this site. So full of shit. Great shit, batshit, shit shit, shit people, which can also as well be a compliment, in context, believe it or not. But this is real and it was treated with craft and respect, even if and when throwing in some idealized romantic stretch, personally relatable, which I’m not gonna get into and no one cares, least of all me, just saying I am not posing for critic or sentimentalism. So as I’m no gonna say it broke me either, but yes, it brought back muck that I buried, and now I am gonna put all that back there where it was and belongs, just after expressing my gratefulness for the ride on memory lane. Remember, is a good thing, here and then. Altogheter it got me thinking I may getting fond of this pIace, but I must say I am starting to see unfitting the effedup label as it is much less so than the world all around, outside of here, sorry to break it to whoever, if anyone, bothers to read this or other crap I am pouring strolling about, the admin, perhaps, who I kinda am developing feelings for; not necessarily a good thing though. A note on the last frame, whether in the intention of the director or yet another synchronicity godemiché of the demiurgic whimp running existence within this cosmos, the open ending with the return to the village in Ukraine at the horizon strucked me as so… Read more »
admin, what’s your favorite movie
Molto triste, anche se, tutto sommato finisce non proprio malissimo. Poveri bambini/ragazzini sfruttati e maltrattati da adulti che invece dovrebbero dare loro affetto, protezione e l’amore di una famiglia che non hanno avuto o che hanno perso. Julie una rivelazione❤
E lucevan le stelle
great movie
Just my kind of movie! 10/10. Also idgaf anymore if some faggot claims the first comment. Have at it.
Ok Admin deleted my “first” comment, but I do want to say that I genuinely enjoyed this movie. I recommend you all watch it.
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Claiming first, so those two comment niggers, Steve and Meow don’t get to do it.