Berlin Alexanderplatz Film Critique

In a radical departure the latest cinema adaptation of alfred döblin s great weimar era novel updates the story with an african.

Berlin alexanderplatz film critique. Berlin alexanderplatz review berlinale 2020. Film review reviewed at berlin film festival feb. The film is exhaustive wielding voiceover dialogue upside down camera shots flashbacks flash forwards philosophical on the nose dialogue. A modern adaptation of one of the greatest twentieth century novels.

Germany netherlands a sommerhaus production in co production with. Berlin review by lee marshall 2020 02 26t14 59 00 00 00 alfred doblin s famed 1929 novel is brought up to date by burhan qurbani s ambitious and lengthy film. Directed by burhan qurbani. Berlin alexanderplatz by anton dechand anyone that s spent time in berlin knows them.

A 1931 film version directed by piel jutzi was notably followed. Young african men roaming the big parks in kreuzberg and neukölln jobless often undocumented forced to deal drugs partly bothersome partly helpful depending on what you look for. Berlin alexanderplatz however is a treat to listen to with a clever ragged breathing motif worked into dascha dauenhauer s remarkably wide ranging score that flexes acrobatically from. With jella haase albrecht schuch joachim król nils verkooijen.

Updated and adapted into film. It s a brave young director who has the gumption to revisit alfred doblin s 1929 weimar republic classic berlin alexanderplatz. In burhan qurbani s new adaptation of döblin s berlin alexanderplatz franz biberkopf is replaced by francis a migrant from guinea bissau who feels responsible for his wife s drowning in the mediterranean and wants to become a good.