Berlin Alexanderplatz / TeleCulture ; eine Co-Produktion der Bavaria Atelier GMBH mit dem italienischen Fernsehen RAI im Auftrag des WDR ; Produktionsleitung, Dieter Minx ; Produzent, Peter Märthesheimer ; ein Film von Rainer Maria Fassbinder

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Subjects: Feature films
Foreign films
Berlin (Germany)--History--1918-1945--Drama
Germany--History--1918-1933--Drama
Formats: Video Recording, VHS
Material Type: Projected medium -- Monograph
Language: German, Summary is in English, English
Audience: General
Published: [New York, N.Y.] : MGM/UA Home Video, c1983
Series: MCIS video collection B-9V
LC Classification: P, PT
Added Titles: Döblin, Alfred, 1878-1957 Berlin Alexanderplatz
Additional Authors: Minx, Dieter
Märthesheimer, Peter, 1938-
Fassbinder, Rainer Werner, 1946-1982
Lamprecht, Günter
Schygulla, Hanna, 1943-
Sukowa, Barbara, 1950-
John, Gottfried
Desny, Ivan
TeleCulture (Firm)
Bavaria Atelier (Firm)
Radiotelevisione italiana
Westdeutscher Rundfunk
MGM/UA Home Video (Firm)
Notes: German dialogue, English subtitles
Cast: Günter Lamprecht, Hanna Schygulla, Barbara Sukowa, Gottfried John, Ivan Desny
Credits: Photography, Xaver Schwarzenberger, Josef Vavra ; editors, Julianne Lorenz, Franz Walsch, Frieda Ketterer ; music, Peer Raben
Based on the novel by Alfred Doblin
Originally produced for television in 1979-1980
"Einem Film in 13 Teilen und einem Epilog."
A foreign film (Germany)
VHS format
Summary: Set in the Weimar Republic era, the story of Franz Biberkof, a man who has just been released from prison where he has served four years for an irrational act of violence. He returns to his Berlin neighborhood resolved to go straight but forces in his environment, the influences of his cronies, the grinding poverty, and the decay of society overwhelm him and he begins his duel with fate
Contents: Part 1. The punishment begins (83 min.) -- Part 2. How is one to live if one doesn't want to die (122 min.) & A hammer blow on the head can injure the soul -- Part 3. A handful of people in the depths of silence (122 min.) & A reaper with the power of our Lord -- Part 4. A love always costs a lot (120 min.) & Remember, an oath can be amputated -- Part 5. The sun warms the skin, which it sometimes burns & Of the eternities between the many and the few (120 min.)-- Part 6. Loneliness makes cracks of madness in walls, too (122 min.) & Knowledge if power, and early to bed, early to rise -- Part 7. The serpent in the soul of the serpent (123 min.) & The external and the internal -- Part 8. R.W. Fassbinder: my dream of Franz Biberkopf's dream (166 min.) & On the death of a child & the birth of a useful man. (CBS)
Miami University's MCIS video collection
Physical Description: 8 videocassettes (930 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
OCLC Number: 36572485

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