

Short Sharp Shock
Gabriel, Bobby and Costa are old friends from Altona, a multicultural hood in Hamburg. Just out of prison, Gabriel wants to turn his back on crime, but the others continue to operate as petty criminals. Friendships are tested as the trio navigate a dark world of mafia bosses and deals gone wrong.
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- Released
- Budget
- $500K
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- Language
- Serbo-Croatian
- friendship
- street gang
- arms deal
- foreigner
- german-turkish living together
- ex-boyfriend
- ex-girlfriend
- immigration
- wedding
- drugs
- hoodlum
- hamburg, germany
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CzechiaCZ
- Digital / OTT18+29 Jan 2004
GermanyDE
- PremiereHamburg Film Festival25 Sept 1998
- Theatrical1615 Oct 1998
SwitzerlandCH
- Premiere16Locarno Film Festival8 Aug 1998
- TheatricalGerman Speaking Region13 Nov 1998
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Short Sharp Shock was released on 15 October 1998.
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CinemaSerf
3/28/2026
“Gabriel” (Mehmet Kurtulus) has an history of petty larcenies with his pals “Bobby” (Aleksandar Jovanovic) and “Costa” (Adam Bousdoukos) but on his release from prison, he decides that there has to be more to life and that he wants to go and run a boat chartering business. Of course they think he’s jesting and when “Bobby” goes and gets himself involved with some seriously menacing Albanians that risks just about eve…
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