1980 15h 2m Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Berlin Alexanderplatz

Name: Berlin Alexanderplatz
Genre: Drama
Released: 1980
Cast: Günter Lamprecht, Claus Holm, Hanna Schygulla, Franz Buchrieser

Drama

In late 1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city's criminal underworld.

Cast Günter Lamprecht, Claus Holm, Hanna Schygulla, Franz Buchrieser

Essays and Criticism

On this film

The Darkroom of History: On Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz by Bart Versteirt, photogénie

On Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Merchant of Four Seasons by Barbara Leaming, Jump Cut Survey Of A Sadist [Films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder] by Jonathan Rosenbaum In Memoriam: Irm Hermann (1942-2020) by Bart Versteirt, photogénie Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors by Christine Smallwood, 4Columns Fassbinder, and Fassbinder/Peer Raben by Roger Hillman, Screening the Past

In conversation with other films

Features | German Dreams: Some Thoughts on Fassbinder’s Berlin and Syberberg’s Hitler by Andrew Tracy, Cinema Scope

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