Berlin Alexanderplatz
2007 TV Series/Drama Not Rated 941 Minutes
In Theaters | Made for TV | |||
On 4K UHD | Not Available | |||
On Blu-ray | February 12, 2019 | |||
On DVD | Not Available |
Principal Cast
Rainer Werner Fassbinder's wildly controversial fifteen-hour-plus 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 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 (Günter 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.
Not Rated.
Presented in German.
Released by Legacy Image/RLJ. See more credits.