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Dealer

Dealer

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 5, 1999

Runtime

1h 14m

Genres

Crime, Drama

User Score

46%

Original Title

Dealer

Production Companies

Trans-Film, ZDF

Director

Thomas Arslan

Description

Can and his girlfriend, Jale, live with their young daughter, Meral, in a tough Turkish neighbourhood of Berlin and barely manage to scrape enough money together for their existence. Can is a small-time dealer and errand-boy for drug boss Hakan, who has to keep his customers supplied within his narrowly staked out territory. Jale, who works in the ware-house of a department store, has been pressing Can to give up this activity. Can, also fed up with his situation, sees a bright new beginning for himself and his family when Hakan offers him the prospective chance to run a bar on his very own. But Can has little control over the pressures that gradually begin to build up around him and soon finds himself floundering in quicksand.