2020
TV-MA
Netflix
1 h 34 m

2020
TV-MA
Netflix
1 h 34 m

Summary Rising High tells the story of the rise and fall of two real-estate fraudsters. Viktor Stein (David Kross), Gerry Falkland (Frederick Lau) and the banker Nicole Kleber (Janina Uhse) get incredibly rich within a short period of time. But soon they are sucked deeper and deeper into a maelstrom of lies, fraud and deceit - until at some poi...

Directed By: Cüneyt Kaya

Written By: Johannes Kunkel, Cüneyt Kaya

2020
TV-MA
Netflix
1 h 34 m

2020
TV-MA
Netflix
1 h 34 m

Rising High

Name: Rising High
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 2020-04-17
Duration: 1 min 34 s
Rating: 40
Cast: Frederick Lau, Ellen Dubin, David Kross, Emily Goss, Gia Bay

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 4 Critic Reviews

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Directed By: Cüneyt Kaya

Written By: Johannes Kunkel, Cüneyt Kaya

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Mixed or Average Based on 4 Critic Reviews

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Movie Nation

Apr 23, 2020

The pitfalls — drugs, marriage (Janina Use) to an amoral hustler to happens to be a banker) — are tried and true, if not downright trite. But it starts well, finishes with a flourish and finds enough “Isn’t this rip-off cute?” moments to be worth your while.

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The Guardian

Apr 23, 2020

The film’s plausibility-level isn’t perhaps as high as all that (it really works best as a period piece from the pre-2008 crash) but Kross brings to it a jaded, corrupted glamour.

By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW

Variety

Apr 23, 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.

By Dennis Harvey FULL REVIEW

The New York Times

Apr 23, 2020

Other than its misogyny, the movie, stacked with try-hard hedonism, fails to provoke more than mild annoyance.

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Production Company UFA Fiction

Release Date Apr 17, 2020

Duration 1 h 34 m

Rating TV-MA

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Frederick Lau

Gerry Falkland

Ellen Dubin

Liebholz

David Kross

Viktor Steiner

Emily Goss

Nicole

Gia Bay

Chantal

Pierre Kiwitt

Jakob Dören

Susan Angelo

Viktoria

Enrico Lo Verso

Finanzminister Malta De Luca

Janina Uhse

Nicole Kleber

Uwe Preuss

Manfred Bauer

Anne Schäfer

Luna

Sophia Thomalla

Chantal

Detlev Buck

Bankchef

Anne-Kathrin Gummich

Beate Guttmann

Jerry Kwarteng

Gefängniswärter Topcu

Hannes Wegener

Bankangestellter Rissmann

Dejan Bucin

Herr Thiel

David Haack

Viktor

Robert Schupp

Peter Steiner

Martin Armknecht

Herr Botek

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