Utopia

Utopia

Utopia

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Utopia

1983

3h 7m

6.3(15 votes)

Drama

Overview

A treatise on love and desire tainted by harsh reality of capitalism, in which submission to the laws of lust-as-commerce is played out by five prostitutes and their pimp, who pits them against one another so that they are incapable of standing up to him collectively.

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ZDF

Cast & Crew

26 members

Acting

Manfred Zapatka

Heinz

Manfred Zapatka

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Imke Barnstedt

Renate

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Gundula Petrovska

Rosi

Gundula Petrovska

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Gabriele Fischer

Susi

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Johanna Sofia

Helga

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Birgit Anders

Monika

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Bernhard Adami

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Barbara Beutler

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Johanna Ebert

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Fritz Ewert

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Johanna Gerhard

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Hans-Joachim Grubel

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Andreas Hanft

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Albert Heins

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Irma Jagow

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Klaus Jepsen

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Ursula Kessler

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Kurt Klein

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Christoph Künzler

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Christoph Künzler

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Lothar Lambert

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Lothar Lambert

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Harald Lutz

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Herbert Heinz Pfeiffer

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Heinz Rabe

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Karl Schulz

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Peter Wagenbreth

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Alex Zander

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