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
- 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.