| 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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DVD video |
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Motion pictures lcgft |
| System Details |
DVD, NTSC, region 1, wide screen. |
| 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 Qurban's 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 Berlin' 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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German language materials.
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| Genre |
Feature films.
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German language materials.
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Foreign films, German language materials.
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DVD-video discs.
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| Added Author |
Qurbani, Burhan, 1980- film director.
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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. |
738329253257 |
| Music No. |
K25323 Kino Lorber |
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