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Hotel St. Pauli (1988)

Hotel St. Pauli poster
Directed by
Svend Wam, Petter Vennerød
Genre
drama film
Country
Norway
Runtime
2h 02m
Rated
18
Rating
3.1 of 10 from 10 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A Norwegian drama set in the red light district of Hamburg's St. Pauli and around Copenhagen. It follows characters caught up in sex and violence in that underworld.

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What happens

Hotel St. Pauli is a 1988 Norwegian drama film by Svend Wam, based upon the novel Jord! by Erland Kiøsterud. The movie is set in Copenhagen, Hamburg and the roads in between. It is about sex and violence in the Hamburg red light district of St. Pauli. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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