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  • 2021
  • Kino Lorber
  • 3 h 3 m
  • 2021
  • Kino Lorber
  • 3 h 3 m

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. He init...

Directed By: Burhan Qurbani

Written By: Martin Behnke, Alfred Döblin, Burhan Qurbani

  • 2021
  • Kino Lorber
  • 3 h 3 m
  • 2021
  • Kino Lorber
  • 3 h 3 m

Berlin Alexanderplatz

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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. He init...

Directed By: Burhan Qurbani

Written By: Martin Behnke, Alfred Döblin, Burhan Qurbani

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May 18, 2021
Beautiful and atmospheric but essentially empty and pointless, Berlin Alexanderplatz hits you with the bluntness of a sledgehammer.
By Alex Saveliev FULL REVIEW
50
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.
By Jessica Kiang FULL REVIEW
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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.
By Lee Marshall FULL REVIEW
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Apr 20, 2021
A heavy-handed reimagining.
By Deborah Young FULL REVIEW
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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.
By Nicolas Rapold FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Entertainment One, Sommerhaus Filmproduktion, Lemming Film, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), ARTE, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Medien- und Filmgesellschaft (MFG) Filmförderung Baden-Württemberg, Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (BKM), Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF), Nederlands Filmfonds, Netherlands Film Production Incentive, Eurimages, Wild at Art
Release Date Apr 30, 2021
Duration 3 h 3 m
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Tagline You deserve more from life
Website https://le-pacte.com/france/film/berlin-alexanderplatz
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Awards

German Film Awards
• 5 Wins & 11 Nominations
German Film Critics Association Awards
• 2 Wins & 6 Nominations
European Film Awards
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations

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