germany through the eyes of a newcomer it s nothing like a film from my working on a remake of berlin alexanderplatz it was 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. that s come out has already won germany from price his latest film premiered at the palin on a school class the communist east germany observes a minute s silence for those killed in the hungary an uprising of nine hundred fifty six with dramatic consequences. it s likely that 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