Dealer

The story is about Can, a young man with Turkish ancestry, who sells drugs on the streets of Berlin, and the troubles he gets with his occupation. His friends are all from the same drug-dealing environment, and the police are after him, and his drug-provider is a manipulative man, who has his own problems with the "bigger fish" that are above him, which also effects the life of Can.

The film didn't really interest me very much, as it didn't dig deeper into the mindset and everyday lives of the dealers, and only briefly showed some depth to the characters involved. After seeing the Danish Nicolas Winding Refn's hardcore "Pusher"-trilogy, this German effort seems almost like an ambitious school-project, that just lacked the budget and/or passion to make it better. It's a shame, because it seems like the makers really had an important message they wanted to convey, but in the end, it didn't really come through as strong as they probably would have wanted.

Overall, a decent story for a short feature, but stretched into full feature-film length, it just seems prolonged and gets a bit boring after a while. But still worth a watch if you like social-commentary, and some insight into the lives of young drug-dealers.