3 Movies Directed by Marco Kreuzpaintner

Trade

Trade

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-10-18

Languages:

English, Spanish, Polish, Russian

Countries:

Germany, USA

Runtime:

120 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (14202 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Jose Rivera (screenplay)

Peter Landesman (story)

Jose Rivera (story)

Peter Landesman (article)

Fullplot:

Adriana is a 13-year-old girl from Mexico City whose kidnapping by sex traffickers sets in motion a desperate mission by her 17-year-old brother, Jorge, to save her. Trapped and terrified by an underground network of international thugs who earn millions exploiting their human cargo, Adriana's only friend and protector throughout her ordeal is Veronica, a young Polish woman tricked into the trade by the same criminal gang. As Jorge dodges immigration officers and incredible obstacles to track the girls' abductors, he meets Ray, a Texas cop whose own family loss to sex trafficking leads him to become an ally in the boy's quest. Fighting with courage and hard-tested faith, the characters of Trade negotiate their way through the unspeakable terrain of the sex trade "tunnels" between Mexico and the United States. From the barrios of Mexico City and the treacherous Rio Grande border, to a secret Internet sex slave auction and the final climactic confrontation at a stash house in suburban New Jersey, Ray and Jorge forge a close bond as they give desperate chase to Adriana's kidnappers before she is sold and disappears forever into this brutal global underworld, a place from which few victims ever return.

Summer Storm

Summer Storm

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2004-09-02

Languages:

German

Countries:

Germany

Runtime:

98 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (10219 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Thomas Bahmann (screenplay)

Marco Kreuzpaintner (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Tobi and Achim, the pride of the local crew club, have been the best of friends for years and are convinced that nothing will ever stand in the way of their friendship. They look forward to the upcoming summer camp and the crew competition. Achim's girlfriend Sandra is on the girl's team and he enjoys spending more time with her. Tobi becomes increasingly skeptical of their relationship. Anke, the pretty girl who has fallen for Tobi, doesn't make things any easier, then the gay team from Berlin arrives and Tobi is totally confused. The storm that breaks out the evening before the race begins is more than meteorological in this sensitive story about the complexities of growing up.

Krabat and the Legend of the Satanic Mill

Krabat and the Legend of the Satanic Mill

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-10-09

Languages:

German

Countries:

Germany, UK, Romania

Runtime:

120 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (4913 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Michael Gutmann

Marco Kreuzpaintner

Otfried Preuèler (novel)

Fullplot:

1648. After the Thirty Years War, Germany is a wretched, plundered land, still ravished by the Black Death. Urchin Krabat gets separated from his beggar friends and finds refuge on the flourishing estate of the black miller. the hard worker gets initiated in his secret magic society. Only afterward he learns its terrible dark secrets, which spell death and/or solitude for the boys and their beloved village girls. A surprising friend offers a daring way out.

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