Berlin Alexanderplatz
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Synopsis
An African immigrant struggles to make a new life for himself in the big city in director-co-writer Burhan Qurbani's (We Are Young. We Are Strong.) audacious, neon-lit reinterpretation of Alfred Döblin's 1929 novel. After surviving his perilous journey, Francis vows to be a good man, but he soon realizes how difficult it is to be righteous while undocumented in Germany - without papers, without a nationality, and without a work permit. When he receives an enticing offer for easy money from the psychopathic gangster Reinhold (Albrecht Schuch), Francis initially resists temptation, but eventually he is sucked into Berlin's underworld and his life spirals out of control.
Cast
- Albrecht Schuch
- Jella Haase
- Joachim Król
- Welket Bungué
- Nils Verkooijen
- Annabelle Mandeng
- Richard Fouofié Djimeli
- Mira Elisa Goeres
- Rufina Neumann
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Metacritic
May 18, 2021
Beautiful and atmospheric but essentially empty and pointless, Berlin Alexanderplatz hits you with the bluntness of a sledgehammer.
Alex Saveliev
Film Threat
Apr 20, 2021
A heavy-handed reimagining.
Deborah Young
The Hollywood Reporter
Apr 20, 2021
The paradox is that in modernising Berlin Alexanderplatz, Qurbani has created an ambitious but also stridently melodramatic moral parable that seems oddly dated.
Lee Marshall
Screen Daily
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