Kurz und schmerzlos

1998 [GERMAN]

Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller

3
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 77% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.1/10 10 6150 6.2K

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Plot summary

Gabriel, Bobby and Costa are old friends from Altona, a multicultural hood in Hamburg. Just out of prison, Gabriel wants to turn his back on crime, but the others continue to operate as petty criminals. Friendships are tested as the trio navigate a dark world of mafia bosses and deals gone wrong.

Director

Fatih Akin Photo
Fatih Akin

Top cast

Ralph Herforth Photo
Ralph Herforth as Muhamer
Oscar Ortega Sánchez Photo
Oscar Ortega Sánchez as Waffenhändler
Idil Üner Photo
Idil Üner as Ceyda
Fatih Akin Photo
Fatih Akin as Nejo
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914.18 MB
1280*682
German 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 39 min
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1.84 GB
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German 5.1
16
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23.976 fps
1 hr 39 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 7 / 10

“Gabriel” (Mehmet Kurtulus) has an history of petty

“Gabriel” (Mehmet Kurtulus) has an history of petty larcenies with his pals “Bobby” (Aleksandar Jovanovic) and “Costa” (Adam Bousdoukos) but on his release from prison, he decides that there has to be more to life and that he wants to go and run a boat chartering business. Of course they think he’s jesting and when “Bobby” goes and gets himself involved with some seriously menacing Albanians that risks just about everyone, “Gabriel” has to rethink his plans. For my money, it’s the rudderless wastrel “Costa” who serves as the pivot of the plot here, but all three male characters work really quite convincingly together as they test their own loyalties, those of the women in their lives - notably “Alice” (Regula Grauwiller) and their determination to face down the brutal “Muhamer” (Ralph Herforth) as “Bobby” gets in deeper and deeper. The Hamburg scenario also adds a gritty authenticity to this, as do some very naturally presented elements of religiosity and race that in some ways strengthen our Turkish/Greek/Serbian combo and in others strain it at the seams. It’s violent but never really gratuitously so as it focuses more on the cerebral elements of gangster behaviour tempered with a good old dose of sexual melodrama, and as crime dramas go it’s really quite powerful.
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Reviewed by EnvyYouProductions 8 / 10

Superb gangster melodrama made in Germany.

There are German films that aren't relationship comedies or delve into recent history. This film is a gangster melodrama, set in the Turkish community of Hamburg Altona. We care about the fates of the colourful, not-always-do-goods, emphasise with their struggle against the life they live. KURZ UND SCHMERZLOS manages to reach a rare quality: it feels "real".

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