
Berlin Alexanderplatz(2020)
In 2015, thirty year old refugee Francis, the sole survivor of a boat that illegally crossed the Mediterranean, is drawn into Berlin's seedy underbelly.



Lazar Ristovski
Caruso

Iakov Kultiasov
Barbu

Katharina Thalbach
Julie

Oktay Özdemir
Marcel

Birol Ünel
Birol

Imogen Kogge
Polizistin

Anna Thalbach
Julie

Paulus Manker
Kardinal

Imogen Kogge
Polizisti
Yasemin Buyuksapci
Bianca
King of Thieves is a drama, crime film released in 2003 exploring themes of berlin, germany, circus, trafficking, child prostitution. Directed by Ivan Fíla, it stars Lazar Ristovski, Iakov Kultiasov, Katharina Thalbach. Two amateur circus kids from a poor Ukrainian village, ten-year-old Barbu and his older sister Mimma, are sold to a circus artist called Caruso who promises them a career in the West.
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