Hotte im Paradies

»It’s hard out here for a pimp« sings Terrence Howard on the soundtrack to
Craig Brewer‘s »Hustle & Flow«. For Hotte, who ekes out a living as a small
pimp in Berlin-Charlottenburg, it‘s usually tough too. But that doesn‘t particularly interest the survival artist played by Mišel Matičevič. For him, taking
life as lightly as possible is a sign of professionalism. So, like all the other
gangsters and pimps around him, he chases after money, only to squander it
again immediately. When the Russian mafia poaches Jenny, his most successful ‘employee’, the fragile balance of his life collapses. Like Hotte, Dominik
Graf balances on a very fine line in this television film. On the one hand, he
recognises in the sensitive pimp, who exploits the women without any scruples,
a romantic rebel who consistently defies the logic of bourgeois capitalist
reality. On the other hand, he portrays the milieu of his characters in all of its
brokeness and finds unforgettable and unforgettably raw images that reflect
this state in a darkly dazzling way.