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Klaus and Max are two boys from West Berlin, whose families are too poor to pay for their higher education. They face a bleak future. Their only hobby is boxing, and they are both desperate to purchase real boxing gloves. The two meet Klott, a gangster who owns a bar that serves
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Klott offers to pay them if they assist him in stealing valuable horses from a circus in East Berlin. The two agree and travel to the Soviet zone, where they meet a girl named Helli, a member of the
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was viewed by 3.6 million people in 1954, becoming the highest-grossing East German film of the year, and sold 5,515,078 tickets in total. Klein and
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and help the officers thwart Klott's plans and arrest the other thieves working for him. The two remain in East Berlin.
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