The twin pillars of Alfred Döblin’s epochal 480-page 1929 German-language novel and Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s deeply influential 15-hour miniseries, first broadcast in 1980, together create an ...
Alfred Döblin’s 1929 masterpiece “Berlin Alexanderplatz” opens as Franz Biberkopf is released from prison, having served four years for killing his girlfriend. Determined to make an honest living, he ...
Director Burhan Qurbani, who is of Afghan heritage and born in Germany, eschews the historical setting in favour of the present day. Gone is the white, working-class Franz, in his place is an illegal ...
IT IS a regrettable fact in the publishing world that some books get the reputation of being unpublishable. Either they are too long or too short or too prolix or simply reader-proof. James Joyce’s ...
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. By Nicolas Rapold When you ...
Director Burhan Qurbani updates Alfred Doblin’s classic novel as a modern-day gangster story starring Guinea-Bissau actor Welket Bungue and Albrecht Schuch in 'Berlin Alexanderplatz.' By Deborah Young ...
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