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"BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ" (1980)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080196/
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Criterion Collection # 411
http://www.criterion.com/films/839
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Description: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's controversial, fifteen-hour-plus Berlin Alexanderplatz, based on Alfred Doblin's great modernist novel, was the crowning achievement of a prolific director who, at age thirty-four, had already made forty films. Fassbinder's immersive epic, restored in 2006 and now available on DVD in this country for the first time, follows the hulking, childlike ex-convict Franz Biberkopf (Gunter 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.
READ:
Berlin Alexanderplatz: He Who Lives in a Human Skin
by Tom Tykwer
http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/617
Designing Berlin Alexanderplatz
by Eric Skillman
http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/719
EPISODE LIST
1. "The Punishment Begins."
2. "How Is One To Live If He Doesn'T Want To Die."
3. "A Hammer On The Head Can Injure The Soul."
4. "A Handful Of People In The Depths Of Silence."
5. "A Mower With The Violence of The Dear Lord."
6. "Love Has Its Price."
7. "Remember: An Oath Can Be Amputated."
8. "The Sun Warms The Skin, But Burns It Sometimes Too."
9. "About The Eternities Between The Many And The Few."
10. "Loneliness Tears Cracks Of Madness Even In Walls."
11. "Knowledge Is Power And The Early Bird Catches The Worm."
12. "The Serpent In The Soul Of The Serpent."
13. "The Outside And The Inside, And The Secret Of Fear Of The Secret."
14. "My Dream From The Dream Of Franz Biberkopf Von Alfred Doeblin: An Epilogue."
Format: NTSC
DVD Size: 7.04 + 7.41 + 7.34 + 7.45 + 7.13 + 7.55 + 7.63 GB (total 51.5 GB) -- Exact Untouched Copy
Runtime (main feature): 940 minutes
Type: Color
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Sound (main feature): German
Subtitles: optional English
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION:
# 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 interviews with the cast and crew, 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 Doblin's novel, from a screenplay co-written by Do'blin 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.
Studio: Criterion
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