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 |