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Berlin Alexanderplatz

  • TV Mini Series
  • 1980
  • Not Rated
  • 15h 31m
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8.4/10
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Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
CrimeDrama

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.

  • Stars
    • Günter Lamprecht
    • Claus Holm
    • Hanna Schygulla
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    8.4/10
    4.7K
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    • Stars
      • Günter Lamprecht
      • Claus Holm
      • Hanna Schygulla
    • 32User reviews
    • 33Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 2 wins & 4 nominations

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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
    A Master's Masterpiece
    This is my third time through, the first having been at its US theatrical release in the early 1980's and the second on video cassette in 1994. The new DVD set confirms my feeling this is the best work of performance in German since Wagner's Ring.

    I am put in a trance by the mise-en-scene, the obsessive repetition of themes and variations in music, narrative, visual detail, camera angle, color coordination.

    This elegy to the Age of Reason, the illusion of progress, the delusions of civilization, to my way of seeing, killed its creator and left us with a paradox: How can a work so pessimistic of our primacy as animals prove so conclusively the very primacy it refutes?
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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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    • Runtime
      15 hours 31 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 4:3

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