Irina Hoppe’s documentary feature film focuses on four weeks of everyday life of a group of juvenile migrant gang members from the Berlin districts Kreuzberg and Wedding. Their parents are mainly from Turkish or Arabic origin, but they were born in Germany, a fact that causes specific, yet casual identity-strategies of the portrayed. In contrast to the often hyprocitical and speculative attempts to exploit the life of second generation migrants in movies Hoppe’s film concentrates on a nonchalantly observing method.
