Little White Lies magazine

Tough Enough is the story of Polischka, a weedy teenage boy who moves out of the posh gaff of his mum’s boyfriend and starts school in a rough neighbourhood of Berlin. In an attempt to survive the attentions of a happy-slapping gang of thugs, he hooks up with a pair of hoodlums and soon finds himself running drugs for the Turkish mafia, with predictably dire consequences. Shot in gritty, muted-grey tones with some intense acting and a dark wit, this is something the German tourist board would prefer you not to see.