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Berlin Alexanderplatz

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  • 19801980
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  • 15h 31m
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Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
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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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4.5K
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  • Stars
    • Günter Lamprecht
    • Claus Holm
    • Hanna Schygulla
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    • Günter Lamprecht
    • Claus Holm
    • Hanna Schygulla
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    • 30User reviews
    • 37Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 2 wins & 4 nominations

    Episodes14

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    Brigitte Mira and Barbara Valentin in Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
    Günter Lamprecht in Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
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    Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
    Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
    Barbara Sukowa in Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
    Matthias Fuchs and Günter Lamprecht in Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
    Ivan Desny, Günter Lamprecht, and Lilo Pempeit in Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
    Günter Lamprecht and Elisabeth Trissenaar in Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
    Günter Lamprecht and Hanna Schygulla in Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
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    Günter Lamprecht
    • Franz Biberkopf
    14 episodes14 eps • 1980
    Claus Holm
    Claus Holm
    • Wirt…
    12 episodes12 eps • 1980
    Hanna Schygulla
    Hanna Schygulla
    • Eva
    12 episodes12 eps • 1980
    Franz Buchrieser
    • Gottfried Meck
    11 episodes11 eps • 1980
    Brigitte Mira
    Brigitte Mira
    • Frau Bast…
    10 episodes10 eps • 1980
    Roger Fritz
    Roger Fritz
    • Herbert…
    9 episodes9 eps • 1980
    Gottfried John
    Gottfried John
    • Reinhold Hoffmann
    9 episodes9 eps • 1980
    Barbara Sukowa
    Barbara Sukowa
    • Mieze
    7 episodes7 eps • 1980
    Günther Kaufmann
    Günther Kaufmann
    • Theo
    7 episodes7 eps • 1980
    Ivan Desny
    Ivan Desny
    • Pums…
    7 episodes7 eps • 1980
    Volker Spengler
    Volker Spengler
    • Bruno
    7 episodes7 eps • 1980
    Vitus Zeplichal
    • Rudi
    7 episodes7 eps • 1980
    Barbara Valentin
    Barbara Valentin
    • Ida
    6 episodes6 eps • 1980
    Fritz Schediwy
    • Willy
    5 episodes5 eps • 1980
    Lilo Pempeit
    • Frau Pums…
    5 episodes5 eps • 1980
    Herbert Steinmetz
    • Zeitungshändler in der U-Bahn
    5 episodes5 eps • 1980
    Elisabeth Trissenaar
    Elisabeth Trissenaar
    • Lina…
    4 episodes4 eps • 1980
    Peter Kuiper
    Peter Kuiper
    • Glatzkopf
    4 episodes4 eps • 1980
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    • Trivia
      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: A Chronicle of Germany (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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    10/10
    Prelude to a Third Reich
    Very long (15 hours in all), very worth seeing. Based on Alfred Doeblin's novel of the same name, "Berlin Alexanderplatz" is set in and around Berlin during the Weimar Republic era, the decade immediately preceding the establishment Hitler's Third Reich in 1933.

    The workers of '20s Berlin are taking it on the chin. Mass unemployment reigns alongside the greed of the landlord and capitalist classes. People are reacting and acting in various ways to survive. As usual, some of the unemployed turn to crime; others to prostitution. Most of the film's cast will see the dawn of the "thousand year Reich" with their eyes only half way open.

    But life must go on and it will go on and it does go on in Berlin during Weimar. It's an exciting time as well, a time when the puritanism of the countryside is being exchanged for a chance to live free and wild in a sleepless city chock full of cabarets and kniepe. Of course, the Nazis didn't like this and neither did their supporters, the conservative majorities of rural Germany.

    As the film's director,R.W. Fassbinder put it,Doeblin's novel,BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ, "offered a precise characterization of the twenties; for anyone who knows what came of all that, it's fairly easy to recognize the reasons that made the average German capable of embracing his National Socialism."

    All this turmoil and potential for explosive change are seen by the audience of "Berlin Alexanderplatz" through the eyes of one guy, Franz Biberkopf. Walk, ride, rob, love, drink and despair with Franz Biberkopf. Best bring along a case or two of good lager while you're immersing yourself in the prelude to "Gotterdamerung".
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    • Release date
      • August 10, 1983 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • West Germany
      • Italy
    • Language
      • German
    • Also known as
      • Berlín Alexanderplatz
    • Filming locations
      • Bavaria Studios, Bavariafilmplatz 7, Geiselgasteig, Grünwald, Bavaria, Germany
    • Production companies
      • Bavaria Film
      • Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)
      • RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana
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      15 hours 31 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 4:3

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