A 'hash prince' in 60s Hamburg discovers the high life has a deadly price.
Hamburg, end of the 1960s: occasional pothead Jan, also known as "the pirate", makes a career for himself in the local drug scene. He quickly becomes the "hash prince of Hamburg". But when he starts dealing heroin, he also draws his brother Ludwig into his dark business...
Acting
Jürgen Vogel's magnetic slide from charm to rot.
Production
Hamburg's 60s underground authentically grimy.
Director
Bernd Schadewald
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Captures Hamburg's real 1960s drug trade explosion, when the port city became Europe's narcotics gateway.
Jürgen Vogel reportedly researched with actual former dealers, blurring method acting into something uncomfortably real.
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