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Berlin AlexanderplatzLamprecht/Schygulla/SukowaBerlin AlexanderplatzLamprecht/Schygulla/SukowaGer Lng/Eng SubNr/7 Dvd/Criterion CollectionDVD-STANDARD
UPC: 715515026529Release Date: 11/13/2007This item is not available at this time.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder's wildly controversial fifteen-hour-plus Berlin Alexanderplatz, based on Alfred Döblin'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 available on DVD in this country for the first time, follows the hulking, violent, yet strangely childlike ex-convict Franz Biberkopf (Günter Lamprecht) as he attempts to "become an honest soul" amidst 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.
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