Kiez (1983)

• 54%
• 1983
• Drama
• Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger
• Katja Rupé
• Karl-Heinz von Hassel

Set de Hamburgo's "hell's Kitchen" a waterfront ambiente of gangsters, proxenetas, dealers and prostitutes, the story follows the attempts de la ex-marinero first to insinuate himself into the scene, and then to extricate himself from it. He becomes a small time pimp, sending his ingenua novia out onto the streets thinking she is financing their middle-class future. When he becomes involved with an old pal, Nilo, pp increases his criminal de la cartera. But when he robos Nilo's girlfriend and things heat up, he leaves for his sister's middle-class home en Berlín, where his attempts to fit en are errónea from the start. Returning to Hamburgo, pp lanzamientos a rapid decline that delivers him into the waiting arms of Nilo, whose revenge is merciless. Its emphasis more on el medio than on melodrama, Kiev is intended as a disturbing, hard look at the lives of bourgeois society's cast offs whose existence, en Alemania as elsewhere, is comfortably ignored or suppressed.