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Berlin Alexanderplatz

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Germany · 2020
3h 4m
Director Burhan Qurbani
Starring Welket Bungué, Jella Haase, Albrecht Schuch, Joachim Król
Genre Drama

An adaptation of Doblin’s text to 2015 Berlin to tell the story of 30-year-old refugee Francis, the sole survivor of a boat which crossed the Mediterranean illegally. Without citizenship papers, Francis is drawn into the underbelly of the city.

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Film Threat by Alex Saveliev

Beautiful and atmospheric but essentially empty and pointless, Berlin Alexanderplatz hits you with the bluntness of a sledgehammer.

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Variety by Jessica Kiang

Although promising a deep-cut dash of contemporary topicality by reimagining the main character as an undocumented African immigrant, there is the sense that the unimpeachable craft and performances — especially from rivetingly charismatic lead Welket Bungué — ultimately add up to just too slick a package.

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Screen Daily by Lee Marshall

The paradox is that in modernising Berlin Alexanderplatz, Qurbani has created an ambitious but also stridently melodramatic moral parable that seems oddly dated.

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The New York Times by Nicolas Rapold

Reinhold exerts a Svengali-like hold on Franz and the women they know, though the character’s questionable magnetism makes this dynamic increasingly baffling.

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