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Tough Enough (2006)
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Original name: Knallhart
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
From the youth directed novel of the same name by Greogor Tressnow comes a film by Detlev Buck that is a realistic portrait of life in the section of Berlin called Neukölln. It’s about power and weakness, delinquents and victims, and the difficulties a 15-year-old faces in a poor and criminal environment.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, tense, rough, bleak, serious, gloomy
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, street gang, youth gang, coming of age, gang, friendship, parents and children, high school life, urban ghetto life, urban ghetto, murder, blackmail, youth, family relations, life is a bitch, teenage life, drug dealing, single parent, innocence lost, crumbling relationship, bullying, teenage boy, mother son relationship, drug traffic, drug dealer ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
germany, berlin germany
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