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Bookmark this pageBerlin Alexanderplatz (1979)
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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From Time Out Film Guide
This shattering adaptation of Alfred Döblin's masterpiece - made for TV in 13 episodes with a two-hour epilogue - offers a level-headed account of protagonist Biberkopf's key weakness: his quasi-sexual infatuation with the psychotic pimp Reinhold. Aided by great design, cinematography, and, not least, performances, Fassbinder tells the story surprisingly naturalistically. Then in the epilogue, he offers a disturbing meditation on his own fantasies about Biberkopf. This phantasmagoria is Fassbinder's most daring act of self-exposure: a movie time-bomb that forces you to rethink the series as a whole. The work of a genuine master with nothing left to lose or hide.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Producer: Peter Marthesheimer
Cast: Günter Lamprecht, Hanna Schygulla, Barbara Sukowa, Karin Baal, Helmut Griem, Ivan Desny, Udo Kier full cast
Duration: 15 mins
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