Berlin Alexanderplatz

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  • West Germany Berlin Alexanderplatz
West Germany / Italy, 1980, 15 h 1 min (Length: 58–112 min)

Based on:

Alfred Döblin (book)

Cinematography:

Xaver Schwarzenberger

Composer:

Peer Raben

Cast:

Günter Lamprecht, Karlheinz Braun, Hanna Schygulla, Claus Holm, Franz Buchrieser, Brigitte Mira, Roger Fritz, Gottfried John, Barbara Sukowa (more)
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Episodes(14)

Plots(1)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s fifteen-hour Berlin Alexanderplatz, based on Alfred Döblin’s great modernist novel, was the crowning achievement of a prolific director who, at age thirty-four, had already made over thirty films. Fassbinder’s immersive epic follows the hulking, childlike ex-convict Franz Biberkopf (Günter Lamprecht) as he attempts to “become an honest soul” amid the corrosive urban landscape of Weimar-era Germany. With equal parts cynicism and humanity, Fassbinder details a mammoth portrait of a common man struggling to survive in a viciously uncommon time. (Criterion)

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