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Rising High

Play trailer Rising High 2020,  1h 34m,  Comedy Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 22% 9 Reviews Tomatometer 56% Fewer than 50 Ratings Popcornmeter
22% Tomatometer 9 Reviews 56% Popcornmeter Fewer than 50 Ratings
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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Danny Leigh Financial Times Apr 29, 2020
2/5
The idea is The Wolf of Wall Street Does Potsdamer Platz. Kaya is no Scorsese. Go to Full Review
Natalia Winkelman New York Times Apr 17, 2020
"Rising High" is a white collar crime movie with little pizazz and even less substance. Go to Full Review
Dennis Harvey Variety Apr 15, 2020
This is a competently crafted movie too shallow to come up with much reason why we should root for these people, and too derivative to make their vertiginous rise and fall more than forgettable formula entertainment. Go to Full Review
Paul M. Bradshaw NME (New Musical Express) Apr 23, 2021
3/5
Kross, Lau and Uhse all do a great job with what they have - Kross in particular standing out with a range that spans wide-eyed kid to slick city boy, through wannabe chancer and everything in-between - but the script isn't quite strong enough to keep up. Go to Full Review
Brian Costello Common Sense Media Apr 23, 2020
2/5
Drug use, binge drinking, cursing in formulaic crime drama. Go to Full Review
Witney Seibold Critically Acclaimed Podcast Apr 21, 2020
Brings nothing new to the rise-of-a-conman genre, but it does it well enough. Go to Full Review
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Cast & Crew

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Cüneyt Kaya

Director

David Kross

Viktor Steiner

Frederick Lau

Gerry Falkland

Janina Uhse

Nicole Kleber

Jerry Kwarteng

Gefängniswärter Topcu

Uwe Preuss

Manfred Bauer

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Movie Info

Synopsis 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.
Director
Cüneyt Kaya
Producer
Johannes Kunkel, Sebastian Werninger
Screenwriter
Cüneyt Kaya
Production Co
Netflix
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
German
Release Date (Streaming)
Apr 18, 2020
Runtime
1h 34m
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