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Title:
Berlin Alexanderplatz [videorecording].
Format:
[videorecording].
Publisher:
Bavaria Media,
Copyright Date:
c2006
Description:
7 videodiscs (940 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Subject:
Berlin (Germany)--Moral conditions--Drama.
Germany--History--1918-1933--Drama.
Germany--In motion pictures.
Motion pictures, German
Feature films.
Foreign films.
Other Authors:
Fassbinder, Rainer Werner, 1945-1982
D©œblin, Alfred, 1878-1957. Berlin Alexanderplatz.
Notes:
G©ơnter Lamprecht (Franz Biberkopf), Hanna Schygulla (Eva), Barbara Sukowa (Mieze), Gottfried John (Reinhold), Ivan Desny (Pums). Originally produced as motion picture for television in 1979-1980. Issued in 13 parts and an epilogue. Based on Alfred Doblin's novel, set in pre-Nazi Berlin. Features: new high-definition digital transfer from the 2006 restoration by the Fassbinder Foundation and Bavaria Media, supervised and approved by director of photography Xaver Schwarzenberger ; two new documentaries by Fassbinder Foundation president Juliane Lorenz; one featuring inteviews 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 D©œblin's novel, from a screenplay co-written by D©œblin himself ; new video interview with Peter Jelavich, author of Berlin Alexanderplatz: Radio, Film, and the Death of Weimar Culture ; new and improved English subtitle translation ; plus a book featuring an essay by filmmaker Tom Tykwer, reflections from Fassbinder, an interview with Schwarzenberger, and German author Thomas Steinfeld on the novel.
Summary:
Story of Franz Biberkof, a former transportation worker. When we first see Franz, he has just been released from prison where he has served four years for an irrational act of violence. He returns to his Berlin neighborhood resolved to go straight but forces in his environment, the influences of his cronies, the grinding poverty, the decay of society overwhelm him and he begins his duel with fate.
Series:
The Criterion collection
ISBN:
9781934121986
1934121983
OCLC:
(OCoLC)180688671
UPC:
715515026529
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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