a remake of berlin alexanderplatz based on the novel by alfred durkin written in one thousand nine hundred thirty but we re setting it in the modern day in twenty eighteen my main character is a refugee a man who made his way across the sea by boat and has landed in berlin now he s trying to find his way in this strange new world this new germany something. has already won a german film price his latest film premiered at the palin are there a school class the communist east germany observes a minute s silence for those killed in hungary an uprising of nine hundred fifty six with dramatic consequences. that s right because of the sign of revolution is about an extraordinary situation ordinary schoolchildren put under extreme pressure in the early days of communist east germany it s about the moment of political awakening in the life of every young adult. data advance brand of political film is quite different. than