Kiez, Kult und Kriminalität – Die Davidwache auf der Reeperbahn

A paean to alcohol as a means of survival to this world, and to the ephemeral communities created by our need not to be alone. On Christmas Eve, between six in the evening and four at night, Klaus Wildenhahn films people who are excluded from this "must be" celebration, and land up in a bar in St. Pauli, Hamburg: truck drivers and prostitutes, regular or casual customers, a coach and an amateur boxer... all desperately in search of happiness, tenderness and sex.

A portrait of the people in '70s and '80s St. Pauli.

A portrait of St. Pauli and its people.

A Low German comedy performed by an amateur theater group, in which suitcases are mixed up. It is linked to a frame story about the making of the film.

In order to bring a police commissioner under control, the criminal group that controls a notorious club that specializes in underage strippers, targets the young teenage daughter of the commissioner who is attempting to become independent by going out at night against her mother's wishes.

Helmut Schmidt is an ambitious Interpol inspector. He follows a trail of dangerous drug dealers that leads to Hamburg. With the colleagues there, he decides to infiltrate the gang. The beautiful dancer Arlette helps him.

A television reporter reports in an episode film about the magazine "St. Pauli News".

The streets of St. Pauli: a gangster who escaped from prison tries to run his little scams in various disguises.

Sometimes your fate lies in the hands of those you meet. Filled with promising ambitions, shattered dreams, love and revenge and in the end hope, the story reveals how tangibly interconnected our induividual fates really are. Cabby Robby drives in and around St.Pauli, Hamburg, from sunset to sunrise. He is surrounded by stories of the night. Drowning in human incidents.

A good doctor is out to stop his evil doctor brother from blackmailing his patients.

A pop singer who has been successful on Broadway, is homesick and returns.

Jor and Gerda is a loving couple that lives together in Copenhagen. Jor is trying to make a breakthrough as a writer, without any luck so far. His struggles have caused Gerda to provide for them by selling sexual favors on the street.