A gripping thriller with powerful imagery: raw, fast-paced, and breathless, written by director Lars Becker. Lars Becker discusses his new book "Es wird Steine regnen" in conversation with Knut Elstermann. Natalia Wörner and Benita Bailey will read excerpts from it.

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Lars Becker is one of the country’s most popular and artistically acclaimed directors. His film adaptation of Feridun Zaimoglu’s Kanak Attack is considered a cult classic, and his crime series Nachtschicht starring Armin Rohde is a huge hit with audiences.

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2035. Deep underground lies Terrapolis. A world without sunlight, a world without a future. A world in which the dead are condemned to live on. For former union leader and miner Dante Palazzo and the ruthless military policeman Majid Ramzy, only one thing matters: escaping to the surface. Equipped with a serum that protects them from suffocating to death on the Earth’s surface, the two turn up in Berlin. While Palazzo desperately searches for his family, Ramzy leaves a trail of blood across the city.

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But they aren’t the only ones who have made it to the surface. The regime sends a hit squad after them, led by Luka Firmino—a man who was once Ramzy’s victim. Soon, police officer Lorraine Diallo and nurse Mona Ramzy find themselves caught in the crossfire and realize that their past is ominously linked to the dead of the underworld. A race against time and the serum’s waning effects begins—a breathtakingly fast-paced story of incredible reunions, heartbreaking, humorous, filled with merciless hatred and eternal love.

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Lars Becker, born in 1954 in Hanover, is a film director and screenwriter. In his first life, he was a bartender in St. Pauli. He studied film in Hamburg and New York, then went on to make his first films. He shot to fame as the director of Kanak Attack (based on the novel of the same name by Feridun Zaimoglu, with whom he co-wrote the screenplay). This was followed by the crime series Nachtschicht featuring Inspector Erichsen (Armin Rohde) and films such as Der gute Bulle, Wahrheit oder Lüge, and Der Millionen Raub, which were met with enthusiastic audiences and widespread acclaim. Becker has received numerous awards, including the German Television Crime Award, the French Television Award, and the German Television Award for Best Director.

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An event presented by Literatur LIVE in cooperation with Rowohlt Berlin Verlag, Thalia Bookstore, and Cinema Paris