Berlin Alexanderplatz [videorecording] / Bavarian Film International presents ; a cooperation Bavaria Media and Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation ; produced by Peter Märthesheimer ; written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Edition:
Remastered ; full screen.
Publisher:
Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
c2007
Description:
6 v. (7 videodiscs) (approximately 940 min.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 in.
Based on the novel by Alfred Döblin. Features: new high-definition digital transfer from the 2006 restoration by the Fassbinder Foundation and Bavaria Media, two new documentaries by Fassbinder Foundation president Juliane Lorenz (one featuring interviews with the cast and crew, the other on the restoration), documentary "Notes on the making of 'Berlin Alexanderplatz'" (1980) by Hans-Dieter Hartl, film "Berlin Alexanderplatz" (1931) directed by Phil Jutzi and screenplay by Alfred Döblin, new video interview with Peter Jelavich (author of "Berlin Alexanderplatz: radio, film, and the death of Weimar culture"), new and improved English subtitle translation, booklet featuring an essay by filmmaker Tom Tykwer, reflections from Fassbinder, an interview with Schwarzenberger, and German author Thomas Steinfeld on the novel. Günter Lamprecht, Hanna Schygulla, Franz Buchrieser, Gottfried John, Barbara Sukowa. Originally broadcast on German television in 1980.
Contents:
[v. 1.] Disc 1 (approximately 147 min.). Part I, The punishment begins ; Part II, How is one to live if one doesn't want to die? -- [v. 2.] Disc 2 (approximately 186 min.). Part III, A hammer blow to the head can injure the soul ; Part IV, A handful of people in the depths of silence ; Part V, A reaper with the power of our Lord -- [v. 3.] Disc 3 (approximately 182 min.). Parts VI, Love has its price ; Part VII, Remember- an oath can be amputated ; Part VIII, The suns warms the skin, but burns it sometimes too -- [v. 4.] Disc 4 (approximately 185 min.). Part IX, About the eternities between the many and the few ; Part X, Loneliness tears cracks of madness even in walls ; Part XI, Knowledge is power and the early bird catches the worm -- [v. 5.] Disc 5 (approximately 123 min.). Parts XII, The serpent in the soul of the serpent ; Part XIII, The outside and the inside and the secret of fear of the secret -- [v. 6.] Disc 6 (approximately 117 min.). Epilogue ; Disc 7. The supplements.
Summary:
Ex-convict Franz Biberkopf attempts to keep on the straight and narrow amidst the underworld of Weimar-era Berlin.
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