Berlin Alexanderplatz

TV Mini Series
1980
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1h 4m

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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.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.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.

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- 2 wins & 4 nominations total

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Günter Lamprecht

Franz Biberkopf

Claus Holm

Wirt…

Hanna Schygulla

Franz Buchrieser

Gottfried Meck

Brigitte Mira

Frau Bast…

Roger Fritz

Herbert…

Gottfried John

Reinhold Hoffmann

Barbara Sukowa

Mieze

Günther Kaufmann

Theo

Ivan Desny

Pums…

Volker Spengler

Bruno

Vitus Zeplichal

Rudi

Barbara Valentin

Fritz Schediwy

Willy

Lilo Pempeit

Frau Pums

Herbert Steinmetz

Zeitungshändler in der U-Bahn

Elisabeth Trissenaar

Lina…

Peter Kuiper

Glatzkopf

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This was screened at the Vista cinema in Hollywood in August 1983, in its entirety (with a 2 hour break for dinner), making it the longest film ever to be commercially screened (15 hours, 21 minutes). Heimat: Eine Chronik in elf Teilen (1984), which is only a little longer at 15 hours and 40 minutes was shown in German cinemas and at the London Film Festival, but not in a single screening, instead being split across a weekend with a night in between the first and second parts.

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Edited into 365 days, also known as a Year (2019)

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THE most monumental film of all time

Berlin Alexanderplatz is by far the most ambitious film of all time. It has a very unusual feel to it as it slips between the real world and the mental state of Franz Biberkopf (particularly when he relives again and again the crime which landed him in prison). Of special interest to film addicts who have not seen the movie is the final 90 minutes which evidently was Fassbinder's own filmed fantasy of the entire plot, done with a background picture of Hieronymus Bosch's "The Garden of Earthly Delights." A fabulous richly-detailed film, but some may not be able to get past the politics.