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In the eyes of his nephew, Dragan Wende was a myth. The stories of his uncle chronicled a man who left Yugoslavia to seemingly became the king of the common man in 1970s West Berlin. Dragan’s disco-era world was filled with strippers, champagne and a crime racket with guys known as The Crow and The Baker. Over three decades later, Vuk decides to seek out his uncle. In place of the hedonistic playboy, he finds an aging bordello security guard longing for the days before the Wall came down. Soon Vuk becomes directly entangled with Dragan’s skewed world, where doing street-side bordello promotion is a hard day’s work, smuggling jackets is a perfectly logical way to make quick cash and political correctness is never a priority. This is not a tourist’s guide to Berlin; this is Dragan Wende’s version. Gabor Pertic

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