Frisch (2024)
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Louis Hofmann, Franz Pätzold, Sascha Alexander Geršak, Canan Kir
A devoted husband and father faces a desperate choice when his brother returns from prison demanding money and renewed help as a drug courier.
The story
Kai is a loving husband and devoted father who struggles to make ends meet with his wife, Ayse. At 24, he works cutting up pigs at a meat-processing plant in northern Duisburg alongside his uncle Andy. Kai grew up with Andy after his mother died young and his father disappeared. His brother Mirko is soon to be released from prison, and Kai had been glad to have him out of his life. Mirko demands the return of money entrusted to Kai, but only a few thousand euros remain. To raise the shortfall, Kai faces pressure from Mirko to resume working as a drug courier, as he did in the past.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Kai is a loving husband and devoted father who does his best to make ends meet with his wife, Ayse. The 24-year-old cuts up pigs at a meat-processing plant in northern Duisburg alongside his uncle Andy, with whom he grew up after his mother died young and his father disappeared. His brother Mirko is soon to be released from prison. Kai had actually been glad not to have his psychotic brother in his life anymore. Mirko wants back the money he entrusted to Kai, but only a few thousand euros of it are left. To raise the missing money in time, Kai has to move heaven and earth. As if that weren’t enough, Mirko wants to force him to work for him again as a drug courier, as he did in the past. Kai is desperate and sees no other way out than to bring the police in.
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