A series about hip hop from provincial West Germany in the early 1990s – who wouldn’t immediately think of Die Fantastischen Vier? Here, however, the protagonists are called Walter (Samuel Benito), Ben (Andrew Profitz) and Nik (Simon Fabian), they are still teenagers and struggle with the usual problems: school is annoying, job is annoying, parents are annoying, things are going well with girls too not so, the rampant small-mindedness is the plague.
Then they discover rapping, and while they very slowly find their own flow, life keeps getting in their way – and sometimes the fact that they don’t quite know what they want yet. That’s how they grow up. The screenplay for “Almost Fly” was written by Grimme award winner Florian Gaag (“Whoetrain”), who also directed this pleasingly cliché-free series. He accompanies the three boys with a lot of empathy – until the showdown on stage. (Warner TV series)
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