• 1980
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 4m
Berlin Alexanderplatz

Summary 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. View more details

  • 1980
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 4m

Berlin Alexanderplatz

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Franz Buchrieser Günter Lamprecht Hanna Schygulla Claus Holm

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8.4

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Genres : Crime Drama

Release date : Oct 4, 1980

Countries of origin : Italy West Germany

Language : German

Filming locations : Bavaria Studios, Bavariafilmplatz 7, Geiselgasteig, Grünwald, Bavaria, Germany

Production companies : RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) Bavaria Film

Summary 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. View more details

Details

Genres : Crime Drama

Release date : Oct 4, 1980

Countries of origin : Italy West Germany

Language : German

Filming locations : Bavaria Studios, Bavariafilmplatz 7, Geiselgasteig, Grünwald, Bavaria, Germany

Production companies : RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) Bavaria Film

Photos

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Oct 04, 1980
Die Strafe beginnt
Part 1 introduces Franz Biberkopf (Gunter Lamprecht), a man who vows to go straight after serving four years in prison for the beating death of his prostitute girlfriend.
Episode 2 • Oct 11, 1980
Wie soll man leben, wenn man nicht sterben will
In Part 2, Franz (Gunter Lamprecht) searches for work---and gets a job selling a Nazi newspaper.
Episode 3 • Oct 18, 1980
Ein Hammer auf den Kopf kann die Seele verletzen
Our hero Franz Biberkopf tries to live from selling shoelaces going from door to door. Here he accidentally runs into his old lover Eva, which makes him so overwhelmed that he runs to the nearest flower shop and says something along the lines of: "I want to buy flowers that should express that the past just keeps following you; and days go by driving you on and on to a place where there is no future." [Or as paraphrased by Laurie Anderson: "Days go by Endlessly. And they just keep going by endlessly; Endlessly pulling you Into the future."] And the florist answers: "White Lillies" - the flower of death. And instead, Frantz buys red roses - and walks to another woman he has met along the route.
Episode 4 • Oct 25, 1980
Eine Handvoll Menschen in der Tiefe der Stille
Part 4. Retreating into solitude, Franz (Gunter Lamprecht) spends his days in a boarding house.
Episode 5 • Nov 01, 1980
Ein Schnitter mit der Gewalt vom lieben Gott
In Part 5, Franz (Gunter Lamprecht) is befriended by the leader of a gang of thieves.
Episode 6 • Nov 08, 1980
Eine Liebe, das kostet immer viel
Franz is the accomplice in a heist and ends up injured after an accident during the getaway.
Episode 7 • Nov 15, 1980
Merke - Einen Schwur kann man amputieren
Part 7. A recovering Franz (Gunter Lamprecht) refuses help from Bruno.
Episode 8 • Nov 22, 1980
Die Sonne wärmt die Haut, die sie manchmal verbrennt
Part 8. Franz is dismayed to make a startling discovery about Sonia.
Episode 9 • Nov 29, 1980
Von den Ewigkeiten zwischen den Vielen und den Wenigen
Part 9. Franz (Gunter Lamprecht) reconciles with Mieze, and talks politics with a new acquaintance.
Episode 10 • Dec 06, 1980
Einsamkeit reißt auch in Mauern Risse des Irrsinns
Mieze reveals she can't have children to Franz, and when Eva tells her she will have a child with Franz that Mieze can then raise, the trio's dynamics shift and reveals further darkness.
Episode 11 • Dec 13, 1980
Wissen ist Macht und Morgenstund hat Gold im Mund
In Part 11, Franz (Gunter Lamprecht) gets involved with a gang that steals clothes from a warehouse.
Episode 12 • Dec 20, 1980
Die Schlange in der Seele der Schlange
Part 12. Franz (Gunter Lamprecht) introduces Mieze to his cafe friends, where a chance meeting with Reinhold leads to tragic consequences.
Episode 13 • Dec 27, 1980
Das Äußere und das Innere und das Geheimnis der Angst vor dem Geheimnis
The exterior and the inside and the mystery of the fear of the mystery.
Episode 14 • Dec 28, 1980
Fassbinder, Berlin Alexanderplatz, 14 - Mein Traum vom Traum des Franz Biberkopf von Alfred Döblin: Ein Epilog
Conclusion. Reality gives way to a dream, in which Franz (Gunter Lamprecht) is haunted by visions of those who have both loved and betrayed him.
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