Director Burhan Qubani discusses why he decided to take on the iconic novel, what 'Berlin Alexanderplatz' has to say about Germany today and more
Director Burhan Qubani has always lived between two worlds. The son of Afghan refugees, Qubani was born in 1980 in the small town of Erkelenz in western Germany and grew up Muslim in a deeply Catholic society. His films as a director have examined the perspective of "a stranger in a strange land."examines the fates of three German-born Muslims in Berlin caught between faith and modern, western life. 2014'sfollows disgruntled youth in Rostock, in eastern Germany, in 1992.
But then it clicked in my head: this community is like the proletarian small-time criminals of 1920s Berlin in Döblin's novel. They are part of society but are invisible for society. They try to reach the middle class but they never really have a chance.
Well this book is part of the of the canon of German literature. And world literature. So that's intimidating. And it's an epic book, so I had to take out a scalpel, cut off the fat, and, you know, rebuild it in my own vision. To not be smothered out of respect for the original material. Then there's the huge and frightening shadow that is the [But at a certain point, I said fuck that. I know the critics will be harsh, I know they'll compare the film with Fassbinder.
I grew up in a Catholic village. I learned the Lord's Prayer before I learned the Fatiha, which is the Arabic, Muslim equivalent. I think this Catholic, Christian background is something that is deeply imprinted in me. In a way it is like Döblin, who was born a Jew but became a Catholic around the time when he wrote the novel. That influenced his vocabulary, his canon of pictures. Even in my first film,, I quote the apocalypse from the Gospel of John.
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