St. Pauli Nacht (1999)
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Cast
Ill-Young Kim, Armin Rohde, Maruschka Detmers, Florian Lukas, Axel Milberg, Timo Rathjens, Matthias Lasser, Doreen Jacobi, Benno Fürmann, Christian Redl, Kathleen Gallego Zapata, Jana Straulino, Heiner Lauterbach, Ercan Durmaz, Hannes Hellmann, Silvan-Pierre Leirich, Valerie Niehaus, Judith Pinnow, Mignon Reme, Peter Sattmann, Oliver Stokowski, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Otto Waalkes, Roger Willemsen
On his first day out of prison, Hamburg crook Johnny receives a call that draws him to the Reeperbahn that evening.
The story
Newly released Hamburg crook Johnny is spending his first day free when a phone call draws him to the Reeperbahn that evening. The story is told through interwoven episodes following people involved, including a taxi driver, a petty criminal, a transgender prostitute, and two teenagers, offering perspectives on the preceding day.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Hamburg neighborhood crook Johnny is experiencing his first day of freedom after a stay in prison. A phone call lures him to the Reeperbahn that evening, where, through a chain of several unfortunate circumstances, he is shot dead by Manfred, a drunk postal worker. In several interwoven episodes, the film recounts the previous day from the perspectives of the people involved, including a taxi driver, a petty criminal, a transgender prostitute, and two teenagers. At the end, it turns out that the call that lured Johnny to Hamburg’s red-light district was a fake call made by two teenagers as a prank.
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