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Brothers of the Night

4.9(24)20161h 28m1

Soft boys by day, kings by night. The film follows a group of young Bulgarian Roma who come to Vienna looking for freedom and a quick buck. They sell their bodies as if that's all they had. What comforts them, so far from home, is the feeling of being together. But the nights are long and unpredictable.

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Status
Released
Budget
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Box office
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Language
Bulgarian
  • rome, italy
  • interview
  • young prostitute
  • male prostitution
  • prostitution
  • docudrama
  • vienna, austria
  • drunk
  • lgbt
  • cross dresser
  • migrant worker
  • masculinity

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Director

Patric Chiha

Produced in

Austria

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Release dates

  • FranceFR

    • Premiere12 Oct 2016
    • Theatrical8 Feb 2017
  • GermanyDE

    • PremiereBerlin International Film Festival16 Feb 2016
    • Theatrical18 Feb 2016
  • RomaniaRO

    • Theatrical18+18 Feb 2016
  • SerbiaRS

    • Premiere10 Dec 2016

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Brothers of the Night was released on 18 February 2016.

Audience reviews

3
  • T

    tmdb15214618

    7/24/2017

    6/10

    The problem with Brothers of the Night is that it's a docufiction, so one doesn't know what's true and what's not. "Is this real, or am I being manipulated by the 'documentarian'?" is something you'll ask yourself throughout. This distracts, irritates, and undermines everything we're shown. This would have worked much better as a pure documentary or a pure fiction.

  • C

    CinemaSerf

    11/24/2025

    5/10

    The title of this documentary promises way more than it delivers as we spend a few evenings with some Bulgarian Romany lads who have to come to Vienna seeking opportunities. Largely unable to speak German and unqualified for just about anything, they have resorted to servicing the unfulfilled gay population looking for a bit of dominant rough. Not that we see any of that here, of course. What we see is a group of hal…

  • K

    kinrich30

    8/30/2026

    1/10

    What a pointless movie. It follows about 20 guys working as male prostitutes to support their wives and kids back home. There is no story nor character development, it's them mostly looking at the camera telling about what they did for certain amounts of money. Most of the characters aren't even named!

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