Berlin Alexanderplatz
DVD - 2007
After spending four years in prison for killing his girlfriend, lumbering man-child Franz Biberkopf is finally released back into society. He wants to stay honest now he has left jail, but it is tough in the Alexanderplatz section of Berlin. After failing to succeed in several 'regular' jobs, he falls in with some old cohorts and an on-again, off-again association with thugs. Post-war society is crumbling, and it appears that nothing will bring it back.
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- Genres
- Television mini-series
Historical television programs
Television programs
Crime films
Feature films
Fiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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[Irvington, N.Y.] :
Criterion Collection
[2007]
- Language
- German
English - Corporate Authors
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- Edition
- Special edition
- Item Description
- After the novel by Alfred Döblin.
Originally broadcast as a mini-series on German television from 12 October through 29 December 1980.
Remastered, high definition digital transfer of the original 16 mm A/B roll negatives.
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. - Physical Description
- 6 volumes (7 videodiscs) (approximately 940 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- DVD; Region 1, NTSC; Dolby Digital mono; original television presentation aspect ratio, 1.33:1 (pillar boxed on widescreen televisions); dual layer.
- Production Credits
- Cinematography, Xaver Schwarzenberger, Josef Vavra ; editing, Julianne Lorenz, Franz Walsch, Frieda Ketterer ; music, Peer Raben.
- ISBN
- 9781934121986
- [v. 1.] Disc 1. Part I. Die strafe beginnt = The punishment begins (86 min.)
- Part II. Wie soll man leben, wenn man nicht sterben will = How is one to live if one doesn't want to die? (62 min.).
- [v. 2.] Disc 2. Part III. Ein Hammer auf den Kopf kann die Seele verletzen = A hammer blow to the head can injure the soul (62 min.)
- Part IV. Eine handvoll menschen in der tiefe der stille = A handful of people in the depths of silence (62 min.)
- Part V. Ein schnitter mit der gewalt vom lieben Gott = A reaper with the power of our Lord (62 min.).
- [v. 3.] Disc 3. Part VI Eine Liebe, das kostet immer viel = Love has its price (62 min.)
- Part VII Merke--einen schwur kann man amputieren = Remember--an oath can be amputated (62 min.)
- Part VIII Die sonne wärmt die haut, die sie manchmal verbrennt = The sun warms the skin, but burns it sometimes too (62 min.).
- [v. 4.] Disc 4. Part IX. Von den ewigkeiten zwischen den vielen und den wenigen = About the eternities between the many and the few (62 min.)
- Part X. Einsamkeit reißt auch in mauern risse des irrsinns = Loneliness tears cracks of madness even in walls (62 min.)
- Part XI. Wissen ist macht und morgenstund hat gold im mund = Knowledge is power and the early bird catches the worm (62 min.).
- [v. 5.] Disc 5. Part XII. Die Schlange in der Seele der Schlange = The serpent in the soul of the serpent (62 min.)
- Part XIII. Das äußere und das innere und das geheimnis der angst vor dem geheimnis = The outside and the inside and the secret of fear of the secret (62 min.).
- [v. 6.] [v. 6.] Disc 6. Fassbinder, Berlin Alexanderplatz, 14-Mein Traum vom Traum des Franz Biberkopf von Alfred Döblin: Ein Epilog = Fassbinder, Berlin Alexanderplatz, 14-my dream of the dream of the Franz Biberkopf by Alfred Döblin: An Epilog (117 min.)
- Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz: a mega movie and its story / Bavaria Film International ; Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation presents ; a film by Juliane Lorenz (2007) (65 min.)
- Disc 7. The supplements. Berlin Alexanderplatz: Beobachtungen bei dreharbeiten = Notes on the making of Berlin Alexanderplatz / Bavaria Film International, eine produktion des Bayerischen Rundfunks ; von Hans-Dieter Hartl ; sprecher, Rainer Buck (1979) (44 min.)
- Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz remastered: Beobachtungen bei der restauration = Notes on the restoration / von Juliane Lorenz (2006) (32 min.)
- Berlin Alexanderplatz: Die geschichte Franz Biberkopf = Berlin Alexanderplatz: the story of Franz Biberkopf / Südefilm A.-G. zeigt ; [director, Phil Jutzi; screenplay by Alfred Döblin] (1931) (84 min.)
- Peter Jelavich Interview (2007) (24 min.)..
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