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Director Burhan Qurbani's challenging contemporary take on the Alfred Döblin literary classic casts Welket Bungué as Francis, a struggling undocumented émigré from Guinea-Bissau whose earnest bid to carve out an honest living in modern Berlin founders time and again, as much upon his poor choices in comrades as the cruelty of fate. Albrecht Schuch, Jella Haase, Annabelle Mandeng, Joachim Król also star. 183 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack German; Subtitles English; theatrical trailer. In German with English subtitles.
