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Friends Bobby and Junes have been hustling around Nørrebro for several years. Junes was once a talented boxer, but a violent crime conviction put an end to his promising career, and now he drifts around with no direction other than getting through the day and keeping his "business" going. Bobby, on the other hand, is determined to become something "big." In an attempt to win the respect of his powerful uncle, who is the leader of the organized Pakistani mafia in Copenhagen, Bobby is prepared to do anything...

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Top billed cast

Ali KazimJunes
Farshad KholghiZuru
Jimmy JørgensenClaus
Steen Stig LommerWalther
Anders W. BerthelsenSteen
Bjarne HenriksenHandworker #1
Peter GantzlerUrobetjent
Janus Nabil Bakrawi
Isam Subeihi
Ellen Nyman

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