'Berlin Alexanderplatz' Review: Reframing an Urban Classic :

‘Berlin Alexanderplatz’ Review: Reframing an Urban Classic
Burhan Qurbani’s film reinterprets a classic German novel into the story of a 21st-century immigrant from Guinea-Bissau surviving under the thumb of a brutal drug dealer.
Albrecht Schuch and Welket Bungué in “Berlin Alexanderplatz.”Credit...Kino Lorber
By Nicolas Rapold
Berlin Alexanderplatz
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Alfred Döblin’s masterpiece “Berlin Alexanderplatz” received its most famous dramatization not at the movies but on TV, with Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 15-hour adaptation in 1980. Burhan Qurbani’s ambitious film by the same name re-centers the Weimar Era original on a 21st-century immigrant from Guinea-Bissau who seeks the straight and narrow but works for a psychopathic drug dealer.

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