Berlin Alexanderplatz - Criterion Collection
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Actor: G?nter Lamprecht, Hans Zander, Mechthild Grossmann, Peter Kollek, Yaak KarsunkeBrand: Image Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: German (Original Language); German (Subtitled)
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 941 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Criterion Collection
Movie Reviews of Berlin Alexanderplatz - Criterion Collection
Movie Review: Well, I Made It !
Summary: 3 Stars
Whew,finally got through the whole thing from Netflix..
I would rate it higher if not for one glaring thing..
Hello??
Did you know it is unacceptable to pulverize women ??
Beat them to the floor and choke the life out of them ?
Uh,I think the author really seemed to enjoy these parts of the
book(film).
The violence toward women has to be the worst I personally have ever
seen in film..I suspect one notch from snuff films.
OTHER THAN THAT..
I enjoyed the series very much..
He surely is not a likable or sympathetic character to me..
Kind of repulsive..
But the history of the film showing the times change,etc..was terrific.
And the stuttering guy..have you ever seen a more repulsive character
in film than him ??
I really recommend this series..but beware..it's sickening to see
the lack of humanity toward women.
Summary of Berlin Alexanderplatz - Criterion Collection
Rainer Werner Fassbinder's epic adaptation of Alfred D?blin's German novel, written (and set) between two world wars in the 20th century, is still every bit the towering achievement it appeared to be upon the episodic, 15-hour film's 1983 theatrical release in America. The story of a hapless lug buffeted by forces of discontent and disastrous change in Germany--following the country's defeat at Versailles and during the rise of the Third Reich--Berlin Alexanderplatz is a roaming, hulking nightmare about people with no control over their destinies. The film opens with central character Franz Biberkopf (Gunter Lamprecht) struggling to reintegrate into the world after a four-year incarceration for murdering his girlfriend. Half-mad with guilt, sensory overload, sexual starvation and general disorientation, Franz goes in search of a plan for survival but finds the ground constantly shifting beneath his feet. Hooking up with the docile Lina (Elisabeth Trissenaar), Franz vows to straighten out his life and avoid his old tendencies toward petty thievery and pimping. But the alternatives are typically eclipsed by bad luck, unstoppable impulses, temptation and violent opposition between crime and order, Communists and fascists, dreamers and scoundrels. Over time, Franz becomes everything from shoelace salesman to Nazi sympathizer to pawn of a crime boss to victim of his fate. Along the way, he falls apart repeatedly, then picks himself up to see what might come next. Unfortunately, what comes next is generally another peek into the social and economic chaos of his time. Fassbinder, who died at age 36 before Berlin Alexanderplatz was released theatrically in America, found in D?blin's story something akin to the running theme of despair in his own, prolific output of 40 movies. Among his several masterpieces, Berlin Alexanderplatz is in a league of its own, not to be missed. --Tom KeoghRainer Werner Fassbinder's wildly controversial fifteen-hour-plus Berlin Alexanderplatz based on Alfred Doblin's great modernist novel was the crowning achievement of a prolific director who at age thirty-four had already made forty films. Fassbinder's immersive epic restored in 2006 and available on DVD in this country for the first time follows the hulking violent yet strangely childlike ex-convict Franz Biberkopf (Gunter Lamprecht) as he attempts to "become an honest soul" amidst the corrosive urban landscape of Weimar-era Germany. With equal parts cynicism and humanity Fassbinder details a mammoth portrait of a common man struggling to survive in a viciously uncommon time. System Requirements:TRT: 941 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 715515026529
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