Berlin Alexanderplatz

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Berlin Alexanderplatz

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.

Directed By:	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	Genre:	Drama / Foreign / Gay/Lesbian
Cast:	Karlheinz Braun, Franz Buchrieser, Roger Fritz, Claus Holm, Gottfried John, Gunter Lamprecht, Brigitte Mira, Hanna Schygulla, Barbara Sukowa	Year of Production:	1980

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Berlin Alexanderplatz - Criterion Collection (DVD, NR)

Region: 1
Released: Nov-13-2007
Run Time: 941 minutes

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