Charting the rise and fall of three corrupt real estate agents who accumulate absurd wealth in no time but fall into a vortex of fraud, greed and drugs.
Stream
Social & External
The people behind it
David Kross
Viktor Steiner
Frederick Lau
Gerry Falkland
Janina Uhse
Nicole Kleber
Anne Schäfer
Luna
Robert Schupp
Peter Steiner
Silvina Buchbauer
Viktoria Steiner
Sophia Thomalla
Chantal
Uwe Preuss
Manfred Bauer
Monika Anna Wojtyllo
Daniela
Arthur Gropp
Viktor / Kind
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A hitman, his boss, an art dealer and a money-laundering scheme that accidentally turns the assassin into an overnight avant-garde sensation, one that forces her to play the art world against the underworld.
A pseudo documentary study of an archetypal German who tries to model his world according to his ideas of law and (sexual) order.
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