PRINCIPAL CAST

Welket Bungue, Albrecht Schuch, Jella Haase, Joachim Krol

DIRECTOR

Burhan Qurbani

WRITER

Burhan Qurbani, Martin Behnke

SYNOPSIS

An African immigrant struggles to make a new life for himself in the big city in director/co-writer Burhan Qurbani’s audacious, neon-lit reinterpretation of Alfred Döblin’s 1929 novel Berlin
Alexanderplatz (famously adapted by Reiner Werner Fassbinder in 1980). After surviving his
perilous journey, Francis (Welket Bungué) vows to be a good man, but he soon realizes how difficult it is to be
righteous while undocumented in Germany—without papers, without a nationality, and without a
work permit. When he receives an enticing offer for easy money from the psychopathic gangster
Reinhold (Albrecht Schuch), Francis initially resists temptation, but eventually he is sucked into Berlin’s underworld and his life spirals out of control. –Alissa Simon

GENRE

Drama/Foreign

RATING

Not Rated

RUN TIME

183 Minutes

STUDIO

Kino Lorber