Berlin Is Paradise (1/10)

Berlin Is Paradise (1/10)

One morning in Ukraine. The Turkish Berliner Ahmet looks in a small village and finds Svetlana and Jelena. He lures the two attractive young women to Berlin with the promise of work. But once here the two young women are taken by the pimp Kolya to the King George brothel.  

One morning in Berlin. Marek Gorsky and Sven Lottner, police officers in the Berlin riot squad are looking to arrest Max Weber, who has not turned up to serve his prison sentence. Weber is not at home but at least Marek Gorsky finds out in which disco he can be found.  

But first Marek Gorsky commemorates, together with his family and Uncle Sasha, the tenth anniversary of his older brother's death. Grischa was gunned down, the killer never caught. Stella, Gorsky's sister, has since married Mischa, the owner of the Odessa restaurant. She enjoys her life. But Gorsky cannot forget his brother's murder. He became a police officer, a Musa - Trash - as some of his family call and reject him.  

Gorsky, Lottner and Anja Kirchner go to the Russian Disco. They don't know that a group of young men, with whom Anja is letting her hair down, has just hijacked a lorry from the Lenz Haulage company, on the orders of gang boss Andrei. They made off with a large number of untaxed and smuggled cigarettes and sold them on to the Vietnamese, who distribute the goods across the city. Gorsky and Lottner don't know that this robbery signals the start of the war between the criminal structure centred around Mischa, Gorsky's brother-in-law, and Andrei's brutal gang. And Gorsky does not know the young Ukrainian Jelena, whom he has been looking at it in front of the disco, will change his life. After hours in the disco Gorsky and Lottner find the wanted Max Weber and arrest him following a short chase.    

"Films that throb and pulsate, full of raging, wild, delirious life. (...) Graf's far-reaching, wide-ranging cops and robbers saga is epic, larger-than-life TV moviemaking." Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin

"500 minutes of suspense, in ten chock-full episodes, on a par with any big-budget blockbuster. (...) A gift to the audience and a piece of big-screen drama of the sort we need more of (...) The cast is stunning..." Frankfurter Allgemeine