Berlin Alexanderplatz
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Time Out says
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
Release details
UK release:
1979
Duration:
15 mins
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Cast:
Ivan Desny, Helmut Griem, Karin Baal, Barbara Sukowa, Hanna Schygulla, Günter Lamprecht, Udo Kier
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