TOUGH ENOUGH
by Detlev Buck
synopsis
Fifteen-year-old Michael Polischka is thrown into a gritty urban world when his mother breaks up with her rich doctor boyfriend. With little money of her own, Miriam is forced to move them into a dumpy apartment in a rough ethnic neighbourhood, far from the posh suburbs they had grown accustomed to. Beatings and extortion by a gang of violent bullies makes public high school miserable for Michael. A chance meeting with urban crime lord Hamal and his henchman Barut end up turning Michael’s life around.
| international title: | Tough Enough |
| original title: | Knallhart |
| country: | Germany |
| sales agent: | The Match Factory |
| year: | 2006 |
| genre: | fiction |
| directed by: | Detlev Buck |
| film run: | 98' |
| release date: | DE 09/03/2006, AT 17/03/2006, IT 14/07/2006, HU 12/10/2006, LV 27/10/2006, BE 15/11/2006, NO 24/11/2006, DK 05/01/2007, EE 26/01/2007, FR 28/03/2007, CZ 29/03/2007 |
| screenplay: | Zoran Drvenkar, Gregor Tessnow |
| cast: | Jenny Elvers-Elbertzhagen, Jan Henrik Stahlberg, Erhan Emre, David Kross, Oktay Özdemir, Kida Khodr Ramadan |
| cinematography by: | Kolja Brandt |
| film editing: | Dirk Grau |
| costumes designer: | Jale Kustaloglu |
| music: | Bert Wrede |
| producer: | Claus Boje |
| production: | Boje Buck Produktion, WDR Westdeutscher Rundfunk, ARTE France |
| backing: | MEDIA Plus |
| distributor: | Delphi Film Verleih, Big Bang Communication (BG), Palace Cinema (CZ), As Tallinfilm (EE), Civite Films (ES), Digital Cinema Matila & Röhr Oy (FI), Budapest Films (HU), Teodora (IT), Sia "Acme Film" (LV), AS Fidalgo (NO), Kino swiatt (PL), Cinemania Group (SI), Jour2Fête (FR) |
