Click here to copy URL

Berlin Alexanderplatz

2020

Burhan Qurbani

Welket Bungué, Albrecht Schuch, Jella Haase, Joachim Król ...

6.3

191

Drama A modern adaptation of one of the greatest twentieth-century novels. "Alexanderplatz" tells the story of Franz Biberkopf, a former convict who is unable to face the misery of his life and the indifference of the cruel society that surrounds him. It is the story of a man and of a continent at the beginning of the 20th century, looking for a redemption that would never come.

	Author	Review
United States	Jessica Kiang Variety	"[A] well-crafted but curiously weightless update (...)Despite Bungué’s magnetism, the immigration issue feels like an insertion rather than a fundamental addition"	NEU
United Kingdom	Lee Marshall Screendaily	"An ambitious but also stridently melodramatic moral parable that seems oddly dated."	NEU
United States	Alex Billington First Showing	"An utterly phenomenal film, an astonishing work of profound cinema and empathetic storytelling that hit me deep in my gut (...) A vibrant film about how brutal Berlin can be"	POS
United States	Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter	"A heavy-handed reimagining (...) It retains some of the book’s very grandiose ideas about the nature of good and evil and what it means to be a man"	NEU
	Marta Bałaga Cineuropa	"For every good scene, often spiked with an ominous voiceover, Qurbani makes stumbles that feel rather outdated"	NEU

Return to movie

We encourage you to check the reviews' original sources. Intellectual property rights of these reviews belong to their authors and/or the correspondent media from which they have been extracted. If you'd like to help us to add more reviews to your favorite movies, just send us a message.