Berlin Alexanderplatz

    Berlin Alexanderplatz
    2020

    Synopsis

    In 2015, thirty year old refugee Francis, the sole survivor of a boat that illegally crossed the Mediterranean, is drawn into Berlin's seedy underbelly.

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    Cast

    • Welket BunguéFrancis
    • Jella HaaseMieze
    • Albrecht SchuchReinhold
    • Joachim KrólPums
    • Annabelle MandengEva
    • Nils VerkooijenBerta
    • Richard Fouofié DjimeliOttu
    • Faris SalehMasud
    • Martin Wuttke
    • Lena SchmidtkeElli

    Recommendations

    • 50

      The Hollywood Reporter

      A heavy-handed reimagining.
    • 50

      Screen Daily

      The paradox is that in modernising Berlin Alexanderplatz, Qurbani has created an ambitious but also stridently melodramatic moral parable that seems oddly dated.
    • 50

      Variety

      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.
    • 50

      Film Threat

      Beautiful and atmospheric but essentially empty and pointless, Berlin Alexanderplatz hits you with the bluntness of a sledgehammer.
    • 40

      The New York Times

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