Stuttgart Shanghai

Stuttgart Shanghai

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2007
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Overview

A young pair from Stuttgart fly to Shanghai to hop aboard the textile business of his father while she prepares for the birth of their son. A story about the ever more common movement of Germans into the East for professional gain.

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