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Gipsy Queen (2019)

117 min · Drama

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Directors

Hüseyin Tabak

Cast

Alina Șerban, Tobias Moretti, Irina Kurbanova, Maureen Havlena, Aleksandar Jovanovic, Özgür Karadeniz, Oana Solomon

A single mother’s new job at a Hamburg pub brings her into contact with boxing and draws the owner’s attention to her talent.

The story

Ali is a single mother living in Hamburg with her two children. After losing her job as a chambermaid, she finds work at the Zur Ritze pub in St. Pauli, where people box in the basement during the day. Her father, a boxer, trained her from childhood. Ali came to Hamburg recently after becoming pregnant out of wedlock and being cast out of her Romanian village by her father. Still angry, she takes her frustration out on a punching bag. Tanne, the pub’s owner, notices her talent and takes her under his wing.

Full plot (contains spoilers)

Ali is a single mother who lives in Hamburg with her two children. After losing her job as a chambermaid, she finds work at the Zur Ritze pub in St. Pauli. During the day, people box in its basement. Ali’s father was a boxer himself and trained her from childhood. Ali had only recently arrived in Hamburg after becoming pregnant out of wedlock and being cast out of her village in Romania by her father. She is still angry about it when Tanne, the owner of the Ritze, notices her talent as she takes out her anger on a punching bag and takes her under his wing. One day, her two children run away. With everything at risk of being lost, Ali steps back into the ring to save her children.

Genres

Drama

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