When DAF’s “Tanz den Mussolini” and Joy Division’s “Disorder” roar through the disco Top Ten on the Reeperbahn, prostitutes who want to escape their miserable lives for a moment meet have-nots who dream of big money, and curious suburban girls on swanky pimps who are used to having anything they want with a snap of their fingers. And right in the middle of it all is handsome Klaus, whom the no-longer-young sex worker Jutta has persuaded to become a pimp.
“Luden” fairly freely tells the story of the rise and fall of Klaus Barkowsky, who led a gang of pimps in St. Pauli until the late 1980s. The six-part series has nothing left for Reeperbahn romance and glorification, the staging in drastic, dirty pictures, the ensemble that boldly throws itself into every shot and the well-told side stories make “Luden” Germany’s answer to the HBO series “The Deuce”. (2017-2019), which was similarly about the Times Square sex shops in wildly ugly New York in the late 1970s, starring James Franco. (Amazon Prime)
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