Sir Ben Kingsley is in Berlin with two films -- one portraying a corrupt Russian drug agent and the other an American college professor who embarks on an affair with a beautiful young student. In director Isabel Coixet's "Elegy," playing in competition here and based on the novel by Philip Roth, Sir Ben falls for former student Consuela, played by Penelope Cruz. "I wanted [the experience] to be vulnerable," said Kinglsely. "I didn't want there to be too many layers. I even asked if I could use my own voice even though [my character] is American." In the surprising thriller "Transsiberian" by Brad Anderson (starring Woody Harrelson and Emily Mortimer) Sir Ben takes on a Russian accent for his role as a wayward drug agent who happens upon an American couple who unknowingly find themselves being used as mules to transport heroin aboard the trans Siberian railway from Russia's Far East to Moscow. "The film starts as a travel adventure and transforms into a Dostoevsky novel and a dark adventure," says Kingsley.