A jewelry store. Every. The way the film shows the harsh reality for refugees in berlin with scene shot in a refugee hostel and in a park notorious for drugs where many of the dealers are desperate african migrants. German director bore hunt who bonnie is the son of afghan refugees he knew he wanted to tell the story of todays refugees just a few get up this for a smile that if i simply took the story of one of these drug dealers in this park the people here in germany wouldnt take much notice of it so that it would just go ignored it. And so co bunny decided to tell the story through the lens of a classic 1920 s. German novel berlin alexanderplatz by has had to pay. Back in 1031 the story was turned into one of the 1st german films with sound. And in the early 1980 s. The legendary director of vienna fassbender made it into a t. V. Series. A little different but. Now boeheim called bonnie has retold the story of berlin alexanderplatz in the year 2023 our film still contains the books central story a man who wants to be good or finds himself unable to escape a life of crime. If you look too pretty lame is that microcosms will see that hes a glimpse of the dreaming state where everybody. Live 8 itself and it doesnt matter what they do but the most important piece they are. The character francis falls in love with a prostitute named meet she gets pregnant but their love is hopeless francis is unable to save her from himself and from time hard. For Len Aleksandar plots a journey through the dark side of humanity and a city anchored in the present a present that in many ways evokes the instability of the 1920 s. Im good at. It and ill film critic scott roxboro joins us from the heart of the. Score a lot of expectations for this movie in the german press so does it live up to the hype. Well almost i mean this is a crazily ambitious film i mean that its on the plots is one of the truly great epics of german literature i mean you can compare it to James Joyces Ulysses in english so condensing that epic story down to even a very long film this is a 3 hour movie is quite a big task but. The director almost pulls it off i think is a master stroke is the decision to take the main character france be a cop and make him in this case into a african refugee because that really highlights the sort of themes of poverty and desperation from doublings novel and also makes the bridge between the berlin of the 1020s from the book and the modern day berlin of 2020 so this does look transforming actually 100 years old well almost 100 years old it does well. Yeah i think setting up the modern day actually works very very well and i think the film works best when it actually sets very close to the to the plot and the characterization from the novel i mean in some cases even have some of this character speak in. Antiquated german which i thought were perfectly i think the only time this film doesnt work is when the director tries to sort of shoehorn in 21st century discussions and debates of identity or race politics in a way that i think is a bit too on the nose and feels a bit clunky but the closer he comes to do billions original text the better it works just generally how german movies doing at this years belin. Oh actually quite well weve had 3 german films in competition here all been fairly well received my favorite was descent that sells dino which is a love story based on the myth of a water nymph and has probably the absolute best meet cute scene ive seen in movies involving the traumatic leads and exploding aquarium that drenches them both a really really nice movie very very delicately done im a real huge fan of chris john thats old hes been in berlin a number of times but i think this film is his best for years and is the best chance for a german film to win the golden bear the she ok stay with us going to have a look at Something Else right now we have a film that moves between reality and fiction down the tasha is one of many films that have resulted from a crazy project where 400 people were transported back in time and lived for over 2 years in a in a version of Stalins Soviet Union he is a short clip. Of. The lord who was the. Way he was really. The close up of the. Skull as i mentioned this movie was one of many made over recent years about his extraordinary dial project so is it a movie is it a documentary is it a reality show wattis. Yeah i think its actually more of a soviet russian version of the truman show i mean these were all these actors were put in this this complex and filmed 24 hours a day but but these are also the performing roles so you have so the. Scientist a waitress a member of the secret police and this film showing here is just one of those stories and in here together some of this these thousands of hours of footage to create a i dont know the equivalent of almost a fly on the wall documentary of what it must have been like to live in soviet russia. Is it any good. I really liked it remind me a lot of the old dog films from his sort of feel of authenticity but its a very rough film. And its not for the for the faint of heart but if you want to real different look at soviet russia and maybe get maybe a bit of a feel for what what it must been like to live in that kind of society i definitely recommend ok disco rocks as always many many things will be speaking to the same time tomorrow by. About. Now whether its Jackson Pollock splashing technique or. Primitivism. Is always a matter of taste of course meet a young man experimenting with these styles and more and when i say young make up is still in Primary School but already made him an impression on the international scene. This little man is making a big splash whenever mikheil a car exhibits his paintings hes the center of attention the artist behind these pictures is just 70 years old. Still sometimes i get books from artists i look at them play she traced them with my fingers and just start painting i still. Here in berlin mikhail is opening his Tent Exhibitions his paintings sell for a cool 6213000 euros some people are reminded of works by Famous Artists make a match like this life will basically mckerrow has 3 role models for one we have these pictures made with the dripping technique modeled on Jackson Pollock and action painting which started in 1946 and here we have the trowel or squeegee technique modeled on care how do they stop before we think it is and then theres the style of johnny showed basque yeah. Those are his 3 role models on a guy like me. At home they are cologne mikhail likes to spend his time in his basement studio experimenting with paints and techniques hes never taken a course he started working intuitively after his parents gave him finger paints and a canvas for his 4th birthday. Candle for nothing until after the show the very next day he was painting. I came home from work and saw the 1st picture about my wife had done it. She hadnt. Rick. Father posted his sons painting on facebook with unexpected results active buyers contacted him now mikhail paints 2. 00 to 4. 00 works a month. Hes a darling of the media and art circles together with German NationalTeam Goalkeeper money when he painted a picture that was auctioned off to benefit underprivileged children for 11000 years. When mikhail isnt painting he attends school like other kids his age. But it was school for find that they wanted to do. Good art could start with. Karam a car gave up his job and now devotes his energy to managing his son. Very careful to make sure it doesnt get to be too much for mikhail. If it does we put on the brakes immediately. And it certainly can be a lot theyve come to a studio where mikhails works are being turned into prints. For a limited edition the young artist is painting over 5 copies of his composition billie jean named after the Michael Jackson song. With exhibitions in paris amsterdam and new york already planned for the little artist it doesnt see mikhail a car will be slowing down anytime soon. He seems to be enjoying himself good luck to him i leave you with pictures from another office 400 years old whose works just priceless an exhibition in madrid shows as the genius of rembrandts portraiture a man generally regarded as the greatest painter of the 17th century thanks very much for watching join me scott the rest of the curate same time tomorrow if you can buy. Into the conflict zone with Tim Sebastian 16 months of gone by since the start of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed by agents of his own state my guess is as the algebra the saudi minister of state for Foreign Affairs why are there still so many Unanswered Questions about the murder and why the massive crackdown on human rights activists inside saudi arabia conflict and to deal with it in 30 minutes on d w that. 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