• Director(s)

    Laura Lackmann, Istvan

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Cast

    Aaron Hilmer, Jeanette Hain, Henning Flüsloh

TV Show

Luden

LUDEN is a German crime drama series; in this episode, a pimp becomes a drug dealer. …

LUDEN is a German crime drama series; in this episode, a pimp becomes a drug dealer.

  • Director(s)

    Laura Lackmann, Istvan

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Cast

    Aaron Hilmer, Jeanette Hain, Henning Flüsloh

Classified Date:
10/03/2023
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
strong language, violence, sex, drug misuse, injury detail
Classified Date:
10/03/2023
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
During a beating, there are repeated blows to a man's head and subsequent sight of blood in the aftermath on his face. In another scene, a man deliberately breaks a young man's finger.
language
There is strong language ('f**k', 'motherf**ker'), as well as milder terms (for example, 'whore', 'bitch', 'dickhead', 'shit', 'screw', 'ass', 'shit', 'bullshit', 'bastard', 'piss', 'God', 'damn', 'hell') and racist language ('blackie') which is not condoned by the work as a whole.
sex
In a club, two people have sex and a man performs cunnilingus on a woman. It is implied that a young woman fires a plastic ball out of her vagina, but there is no strong nudity detail. There are also strong verbal sex references, and brief sight of a line drawing of an erect penis.
drugs
A man snorts cocaine and a woman injects heroin into her foot. Drug misuse is not condoned by the work as a whole.
injury detail
A woman opens her coat to expose her breasts and show a man two knife scars across her chest. Her face is also bruised, and it is implied that her pimp has attacked her
additional issues
A prostitution theme runs throughout the episode. In one scene, a man runs naked down the street with his penis exposed. There is also moderate threat.
sexual threat, domestic abuse
Classified Date:
10/03/2023
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
A father beats his teenage daughter across the back after discovering that she's a prostitute. A man grabs a woman by the throat before punching her hard.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A young woman is forced to touch a man's groin over his trousers in a sex club. In another scene, a woman tells a man about a pimp who forced a live eel into a woman's vagina, and that it ate through her intestines, killing her. A reluctant young female sex worker is forced to go to an oil rig and is shown looking scared when she enters a roomful of men. There are also several scenes in which a man grooms young women to become sex workers.
additional issues
The episode contains very strong language ('c**t') and strong language ('f**k'). There is strong sex and sex references, A police officer looks at close-up photos of women's bruised and bloodstained faces. There are scenes of threat, including those in which a criminal cartel menace a man. There is brief sight of drug paraphernalia in a scene in which it is implied that a woman has taken heroin.
very strong language, strong violence, sex, sexual threat, nudity
Classified Date:
10/03/2023
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
A bare knuckle fight includes heavy repeated blows to the head, including a headbutt. A man repeatedly punches a man's face. There is blood in the aftermath of both scenes.
language
There is infrequent very strong language ('c**t'), as well as strong language ('f**k'), and milder terms (for example, 'whore', 'cock', 'dickhead', 'dick', 'ass', 'asshole', 'piss', 'shit', 'bullshit', 'balls', 'God', 'damn', 'hell').
sex
A man performs a sexual act on a woman; however, there is no strong detail. A woman rubs herself against a man and it is implied she mastubates him below frame. There is brief sight of a line drawing of a penis. There are also strong verbal sex references, including to masturbation.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A teenage girl steps onto a strip club stage where customers urge her to expose her body. However, she does not do so.
nudity
There are scenes of sexualised female nudity.
additional issues
The episode has a sex work theme. There are scenes of moderate threat and menace. There are also brief references to racism, and which are clearly disapproved of by the work as a whole.
sexual violence, child sexual abuse, strong sex
Classified Date:
10/03/2023
Use:
VOD/Streaming
sex
Scenes of strong sex include sexualised nudity and a scene of sexual activity in a brothel, including one which shows thrusting and another scene in which a man masturbates in front of a female sex worker who also masturbates. There are also strong verbal sex references.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A man has consensual sex with a young woman before a second woman appears and the couple try to force her into having sex with them. However, the younger woman refuses to submit to sexual violence and leaves the room. In another scene, the same young woman makes a graphic reference to her father's sexual abuse of her when she was a child. In one scene, it is implied that a young boy is sexually abused by an older woman. There are also scenes of sexual threat, including sight of a man advancing on a scared teenage girl.
additional issues
Scenes of strong threat include a scene of knife threat and another scene in which a pimp turns on a female sex worker and forces her up against a car. Scenes of strong violence include a man kicking another man to the floor before forcing food into his mouth. Strong injury detail includes photos of the partially decomposed corpse of a woman who as taken her own life. There is also strong language ('f**k'), as well as discriminatory language ('midgets') which is not condoned by the work as a whole.
very strong language, strong violence, sexual coercion
Classified Date:
10/03/2023
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
A boxing match includes emphasised slow motion close-up blows to the head, accompanied by blood spurts and injury detail.
language
There are two uses of very strong language ('c**t'), strong language ('f**k'), and homophobic language ('faggot'), which is not condoned by the work as a whole.
sexual violence and sexual threat
During the AIDS crisis, a pimp tries to coerce female sex workers into having sex without using condoms. A woman refuses and he repeatedly beats her.
additional issues
There is strong sex, including a scene of brief masked thrusting. There are also strong verbal sex references, including to anal sex and fellatio. There are scenes of female nudity. Drug references include brief sight of a man preparing heroin, as well as verbal references to heroin misuse. Drug misuse is not condoned by the work as a whole. This episode deals with the impact of AIDS in the early 1980s, and there are associated references to illness and death, including a stricken woman and sight of a coffin.
very strong language, strong violence, drug misuse, threat, sex
Classified Date:
10/03/2023
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
There are scenes in which people are shot and stabbed, some of which are accompanied by blood spurts and blood in the aftermath. In one scene, a man shoots a dog offscreen.
threat and horror
In a prolonged scene, a drugs kingpin threatens to kill two men; however, he does not do so.
language
There is very strong language ('c**t'), strong language ('f**k'), milder terms ('prick', 'whore', 'pussy', 'dick', 'shit', 'piss'), rude middle finger gestures, and discriminatory references towards homosexuals and people suffering with AIDS which are not condoned by the work as a whole.
sex
There is brief sight of rear-entry thrusting, as well as strong verbal sex references.
drugs
There are scenes in which people snort cocaine, as well as scenes in which women remove drug capsules from their bodies, and scenes in which cocaine is prepared and sold. Drug misuse is not condoned by the work as a whole.
additional issues
A person hangs dead from a tree after taking their own life. There are scenes featuring a woman dying of AIDS. There are also brief verbal references to abortion.
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  • Classified date

    10/03/2023

  • Distributor

    Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.

  • Language

    German