Berlin Alexanderplatz [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Overview

Sometimes seen as an analysis of what leads to Nazism, this compelling film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder portrays one man's tribulations. Franz (Gunter Lamprecht) kills his mistress while in a jealous rage, is sent to prison, and is released after serving his sentence. Panicked by the strange new Berlin, he finds shelter for awhile with a kind Jew, and later moves back to his old place. After some affairs, he meets a woman and tries to go straight, but he is betrayed, reverts to old habits, loses an arm because of the betrayal, ends up in prison again, and even the woman he loved is killed by the man who betrayed him. Only against these daunting odds does Franz become a candidate for Nazi propaganda.

Product Details

Release Date:	02/12/2019
UPC:	0715515226417
Original Release:	1980
Rating:	NR
Source:	THE CRITERION COLLECTION, INC
Language:	English
Time:	15:02:00
Sales rank:	14,241

Special Features

High-Definition digital restoration by the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation and Bavaria Media, supervised and approved by Director of Photography Xaver Schwarzenberger, with DTS-HD Master Audio Soundtrack; Two documentaries by Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation president Juliane Lorenz: one from 2007 featuring interviews with the cast and crew, the other from 2006 on the restoration; Hans-Dieter Hartl's 1980 documentary NOtes on the Making-Of "Berlin Alexanderplatz" ; Phi Jutzi's 1931 feature-length film of Alfred D?blins novel, from a screenplay cowritten by D?blin himself; Interview from 2007 with Peter Jelavich, author of "Berlin Alexanderplatz": Radio, Film, and the Death of Weimar Culture; Plus: A book featuring an essay by filmmaker Tom Tykwer, reflections on the novel by Fassbinder and author Thomas Steinfeld, and an interview with Schwarzenberger

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Gunter Lamprecht	Franz Biberkopf
Elisabeth Trissenaar	Lina
Karin Raal	Minna
Franz Buchrieser	Meck
Brigitte Mara	Frau Best
Hanna Schygulla	Eva

Technical Credits