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BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ

By Qurbani BURHAN

Drama - Completed 2019

A new interpretation of Alfred Doeblin's famous novel, set among the refugee community in present-day Berlin.

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- GERMANY, NETHERLANDS
- Duration
- 180 mn
- Director(s)
- Qurbani BURHAN
- Writer(s)
- Martin BEHNKE, Burhan QURBANI
- Cast
- Welket BUNGUÉ, Jella HAASE, Albrecht SCHUCH, Joachim KRÓL
- Producer(s)
- Leif ALEXIS (Sommerhaus Filmproduktion), Jochen LAUBE (Sommerhaus Filmproduktion), Fabian MAUBACH (Sommerhaus Filmproduktion)
- Synopsis
- As Francis, 30, the only survivor of an illegal crossing from Africa, awakes at a beach in Southern Europe, he swears an oath to God: From now on he wants to be a new, a better, a decent man. Soon after Francis finds himself in Berlin, where he realizes how hard it is to be righteous when you are an illegal refugee in Germany – without papers, without nation and without a work permit. When he receives an enticing offer from the charismatic German Reinhold, 31, to earn easy money, Francis initially resists the temptation, maintains his oath and stays away from Reinhold‘s shady dealings. But eventually he is sucked into Berlin’s underworld and his life spirals out of control.