Das Glück ist eine Insel

Das Glück ist eine Insel

2000 · 88 min · ★ 5.3 · TV Movie, Drama, Romance, Family

The talented young lawyer Corinna Jakobs is given a great opportunity to make her professional breakthrough: she is to represent the well-known Hamburg fishing fleet owner Petersen in court, who is repeatedly denounced in the press as an environmental sinner by an eco-activist. But when the lawyer falls in love with the rough-and-tumble environmentalist, she finds herself in a difficult conflict of conscience.

Directed by Gloria Behrens · Written by Manfred Buzzi

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