Directed by:
Rainer Werner FassbinderScreenplay:
Rainer Werner FassbinderCinematography:
Xaver SchwarzenbergerComposer:
Peer RabenCast:
Günter Lamprecht, Karlheinz Braun, Hanna Schygulla, Claus Holm, Franz Buchrieser, Brigitte Mira, Roger Fritz, Gottfried John, Barbara Sukowa (more)VOD (1)
Episodes(14)
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Die Strafe beginnt (E01)
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Wie soll man leben, wenn man nicht sterben will (E02)
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Ein Hammer auf den Kopf kann die Seele verletzen (E03)
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Eine Handvoll Menschen in der Tiefe der Stille (E04)
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Ein Schnitter mit der Gewalt vom lieben Gott (E05)
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Eine Liebe, das kostet immer viel (E06)
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Merke: Einen Schwur kann man amputieren (E07)
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Die Sonne wärmt die Haut, die sie manchmal verbrennt (E08)
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Von den Ewigkeiten zwischen den Vielen und den Wenigen (E09)
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Einsamkeit reißt auch in Mauern Risse des Irrsinns (E10)
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Wissen ist Macht und Morgenstund hat Gold im Mund (E11)
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Die Schlange in der Seele der Schlange (E12)
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Das Äußere und das Innere und das Geheimnis der Angst vor dem Geheimnis (E13)
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Mein Traum vom Traum des Franz Biberkopf von Alfred Döblin – Ein Epilog (E14)
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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Werner Schroeter
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Kurt Weinzierl
Austria
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Adrian Hoven
Austria
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Helmut Griem
German Empire
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Margit Carstensen
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Irm Hermann
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Karin Baal
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Raúl Gimenez
Argentina
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Harry Baer
Germany
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Joachim Kemmer
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Dirk Galuba
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Peer Raben
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Elma Karlowa
Yugoslavia
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Almut Eggert
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Hans-Michael Rehberg
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Annemarie Düringer
Switzerland
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Yaak Karsunke
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