Rising High
Apr 17 2020
•2h 34m
•Comedy, Drama
Charting the rise and fall of three corrupt real estate agents who accumulate absurd wealth in no time but fall into a vortex of fraud, greed and drugs.
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David Kross
Viktor Steiner
Frederick Lau
Gerry Falkland
Janina Uhse
Nicole Kleber
Anne Schäfer
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