| Description |
1 videodisc (183 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
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digital rdatr |
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optical rdarm |
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video file rdaft |
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Blu-ray |
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Motion pictures lcgft |
| System Details |
Blu-ray, region A, wide screen; requires Blu-ray player. |
| Language |
German dialogue; English subtitles. |
| Note |
Title from container. |
| Cast |
Welket Bungue, Jella Haase, Albrecht Schuch, Joachim Krol, Annabelle Mandeng. |
| Audience |
Rating: Not rated. |
| Summary |
An African immigrant struggles to make a new life for himself in the big city in director/co-writer Burhan Qurbani₂s audacious, neon-lit reinterpretation of Alfred Döblin's 1929 novel (famously adapted by Reiner Werner Fassbinder in 1980). After surviving his perilous journey, Francis vows to be a good man, but he soon realizes how difficult it is to be righteous while undocumented in Germany without papers, without nationality, and without a work permit. When he receives an enticing offer for easy money from the psychopathic gangster Reinhold, Francis initially resists temptation, but eventually, he is sucked into Berlin₂s underworld and his life spirals out of control. |
| Subject |
Berlin (Germany) -- Moral conditions -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Germany -- History -- 1918-1933 -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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| Genre |
Feature films.
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Blu-ray discs.
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| Added Author |
Qurbani, Burhan, 1980- film director.
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Behnke, Martin, screenwriter.
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Bungué, Welket, 1988- actor.
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Haase, Jella, 1992- actor.
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Schuch, Albrecht Abraham, 1985- actor.
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Król, Joachim, 1957- actor.
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Kino Lorber, Inc., publisher.
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| Standard No. |
738329253264 |
| Music No. |
K25326 Kino Lorber |
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