King of Thieves

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King of Thieves ★★ Konig der Diebe 2004

Poor Ukrainian circus kids, 10-year-old Barbu and his 13-year-old sister Mimma, are sold to one-time circus performer Caruso who makes a lot of promises about a better life. After smuggling them into Berlin, the siblings are separated and Barbu learns to be a pickpocket. But when he discovers that Mimma is forced to work in a brothel, he tries to free her. German with subtitles. 101m/C DVD . GE Lazar Ristovski, Paulus Manker, Katharina Thalbach, Iakov Kultiasov, Julia Khanverdieva; D: Ivan Fila; W: Ivan Fila; C: Vladimir Smutny; M: Michael Kocab.

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