“The damaged first-world-war veteran and the refugee traumatised by his journey across the ocean, both of whom have the hubris to say: ‘I belong not on the fringes, but the heart of society.'” Director Burhan Qurbani explains his reimagining of the classic modernist novel Berlin Alexanderplatz. (The Hollywood Reporter, 2/28/20; The Guardian, 7/17/20)
The damaged first-world-war veteran and the refugee
