Rising High

Rising High

6.5IMDb Score
Released:2020-04-17
Duration:94 min
Country:Germany
Director:Cüneyt Kaya
Actors:David Kross, Frederick Lau, Janina Uhse, Anne Schäfer, Robert Schupp
Production:UFA Fiction, ARD

Overview:

Charting the rise and fall of three corrupt real estate agents who accumulate absurd wealth in no time but fall into a vortex of fraud, greed and drugs.

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