Berlin Alexanderplatz - Criterion Collection (DVD, Region 1)

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Berlin Alexanderplatz - Criterion Collection

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Synopsis: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's wildly 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, violent, yet strangely childlike ex-convict Franz Biberkopf (Gunter Lamprecht) as he attempts to "become an honest soul" amidst 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.

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Directed By:	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	Recommended Retail Price: $USD124.95
Cast:	Karlheinz Braun Franz Buchrieser Roger Fritz Claus Holm Gottfried John Gunter Lamprecht Brigitte Mira Hanna Schygulla Barbara Sukowa
Genre:	Drama / Foreign / Gay/Lesbian
Running Time:	941 minutes
Year of Production:	1980
Disc Release Date:	November 13, 2007

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Two new documentaries by Fassbinder Foundation president Juliane Lorenz: one featuring interviews with the cast and crew (on disc six), the other on the restoration
Hans-Dieter Hartl's 1980 documentary Notes On The Making Of Berlin Alexanderplatz
Phil Jutzi's 1931, ninety-minute film of Alfred Doblin's novel, from a screenplay co-written by Doblin himself
New video interview with Peter Jelavich, author of Berlin Alexanderplatz: Radio, Film, And The Death Of Weimar Culture
Plus: A book featuring an essay by filmmaker Tom Tukwer, reflections from Fassbinder, an interview with Schwarzenberger, and German author Thomas Steinfeld on the novel

Disc Information:

Disc:	Type:
1:	Single Sided, Dual Layer
2:	Single Sided, Dual Layer
3:	Single Sided, Dual Layer
4:	Single Sided, Dual Layer
5:	Single Sided, Dual Layer
6:	Single Sided, Dual Layer
7:	Single Sided, Dual Layer

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Track:	Language:	Details:
1:	German (Deutsch)

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