Martin Behnke

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 Dḇlin₂s 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...