Berlin Alexanderplatz

Name: Berlin Alexanderplatz
Genre: Drama
Released: April 30, 2021
Duration: 183 min
Rating: 43
Cast: Albrecht Schuch, Annabelle Mandeng, Jella Haase, Joachim Król, Lena Schmidtke

2021

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Kino Lorber | Release Date: April 30, 2021 | Not Rated

Starring: Albrecht Schuch, Annabelle Mandeng, Jella Haase, Joachim Król, Lena Schmidtke, Michael Davies, Mira Elisa Goeres, Richard Fouofié Djimeli, Rufina Neumann, Welket Bungué

Summary: Francis, a 30-year-old refugee, is the sole survivor of a boat that crossed the Mediterranean illegally from West Africa. When he wakes up on a beach in the south of Europe, he is determined to live a regular, decent life, but he winds up in present-day Berlin where a stateless person without a work permit is treated mercilessly. HeFrancis, a 30-year-old refugee, is the sole survivor of a boat that crossed the Mediterranean illegally from West Africa. When he wakes up on a beach in the south of Europe, he is determined to live a regular, decent life, but he winds up in present-day Berlin where a stateless person without a work permit is treated mercilessly. He initially resists an offer to deal drugs in Hasenheide park, but then comes under the influence of Reinhold, his neurotic, sex-addicted pal, a drug dealer and human trafficker who takes him in. When he meets club owner Eva and, after several dramatic experiences, the escort girl Mieze, he feels he's found something for the first time, something he's never known before: a little bit of happiness. … Expand

Director: Burhan Qurbani

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 183 min

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Lee Marshall

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. Read full review

Alex Saveliev

May 18, 2021

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

Deborah Young

Apr 20, 2021

A heavy-handed reimagining. Read full review

Jessica Kiang

Apr 20, 2021

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. Read full review

Nicolas Rapold

Apr 29, 2021

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

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