BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ

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• Release Year: 1980
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's controversial, fifteen-hour¬plus Berlin Alexanderplatz, based on Alfred Doblin's great modernist novel, was the crowning achievement of a prolific director who, at age thirty-four, had already made forty films. Fassbinder's immersive epic, restored in 2006 and available on DVD in this country for the first time, follows the hulking, childlike ex-convict Franz Biberkopf (Minter 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.; ; ;
• Cast: Günter Lamprecht, Karlheinz Braun, Hanna Schygulla, Claus Holm, Franz Buchrieser, Brigitte Mira, Roger Fritz, Gottfried John, Barbara Sukowa, Günther Kaufmann, Ivan Desny, Volker Spengler, Vitus Zeplichal, Barbara Valentin, Herbert Steinmetz, Lilo Pempeit, Fritz Schediwy, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Annemarie Düringer, Peter Kuiper, Jan George, Karin Baal, Axel Bauer, Klaus Höhne, Peter Kollek, Harry Baer, Rolf Zacher, Werner Asam, Marquard Bohm, Hans Zander, Yaak Karsunke, Jürgen Draeger, Herb Andress, Hark Bohm, Margit Carstensen, Kristine De Loup, Elke Haltaufderheide, Irm Hermann, Traute Höss, Adrian Hoven, Elma Karlowa, Udo Kier, Y Sa Lo, Karl Scheydt, Angela Schmid, Helen Vita, Gerhard Zwerenz, Peter Bretz, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Holger Hagen, Joachim Kemmer, Eleonore Melzer, Walter Reichelt, Peter Thom, Alfred Döblin
• Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• Runtime: 15:40
• Company: Bavaria Atelier GmbH, WDR (Westdeutscher Rundfunk), RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana, Bavaria Media GmbH, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Series