Directed by:
Rainer Werner FassbinderScreenplay:
Rainer Werner FassbinderCinematography:
Xaver SchwarzenbergerComposer:
Peer RabenCast:
Günter Lamprecht, Karlheinz Braun, Hanna Schygulla, Claus Holm, Franz Buchrieser, Brigitte Mira, Roger Fritz, Gottfried John, Barbara Sukowa (more)VOD (1)
Episodes(14)
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Die Strafe beginnt (E01)
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Wie soll man leben, wenn man nicht sterben will (E02)
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Ein Hammer auf den Kopf kann die Seele verletzen (E03)
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Eine Handvoll Menschen in der Tiefe der Stille (E04)
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Ein Schnitter mit der Gewalt vom lieben Gott (E05)
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Eine Liebe, das kostet immer viel (E06)
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Merke: Einen Schwur kann man amputieren (E07)
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Die Sonne wärmt die Haut, die sie manchmal verbrennt (E08)
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Von den Ewigkeiten zwischen den Vielen und den Wenigen (E09)
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Einsamkeit reißt auch in Mauern Risse des Irrsinns (E10)
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Wissen ist Macht und Morgenstund hat Gold im Mund (E11)
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Die Schlange in der Seele der Schlange (E12)
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Das Äußere und das Innere und das Geheimnis der Angst vor dem Geheimnis (E13)
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Mein Traum vom Traum des Franz Biberkopf von Alfred Döblin – Ein Epilog (E14)
Plots(1)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s fifteen-hour Berlin Alexanderplatz, based on Alfred Döblin’s great modernist novel, was the crowning achievement of a prolific director who, at age thirty-four, had already made over thirty films. Fassbinder’s immersive epic follows the hulking, childlike ex-convict Franz Biberkopf (Günter Lamprecht) as he attempts to “become an honest soul” amid 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. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
![Karl-Heinz von Hassel](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/279/160279899_4e28ad.jpg)
Karl-Heinz von Hassel
German Empire
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
A Case for Two (1981) (series)
![Udo Kier](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/269/269466_9b30ec.jpg)
Udo Kier
German Empire
Best series:
The Kingdom (1994) (series)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Major Lazer (2015) (series)
![Werner Schroeter](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/021/353/21353547_e819ce.jpg)
Werner Schroeter
German Empire
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
![Kurt Weinzierl](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/271/271428_e64caf.jpg)
Kurt Weinzierl
Austria
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Master Eder and His Pumuckl (1982) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
![Adrian Hoven](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/127/186/127186508_2d141f.jpg)
Adrian Hoven
Austria
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
![Helmut Griem](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/271/271429_b305bd.jpg)
Helmut Griem
German Empire
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Tales of the Unexpected (1979) (series)
Peter the Great (1986) (series)
![Margit Carstensen](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/277/277805_b1d382.jpg)
Margit Carstensen
German Empire
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Derrick (1974) (series)
![Irm Hermann](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/909/159909705_7f761b.jpg)
Irm Hermann
German Empire
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Doctor's Diary - Männer sind die beste Medizin (2008) (series)
Ein Mann steht seine Frau (1997) (series)
![Katrin Schaake](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/272/161272394_6f40bd.jpg)
Katrin Schaake
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
![Karin Baal](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/271/271212_05126b.jpg)
Karin Baal
German Empire
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Raúl Gimenez
Argentina
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
![Harry Baer](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/388/160388377_e88a38.jpg)
Harry Baer
Germany
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
![Joachim Kemmer](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/570/161570316_7cb40c.jpg)
Joachim Kemmer
German Empire
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Via Mala (1985) (series)
The Little Mermaid (1992) (series)
![Dirk Galuba](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/178/158178187_04178a.jpg)
Dirk Galuba
German Empire
Best series:
Band of Brothers (2001) (series)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Trenk, the Little Knight (2011) (series)
![Peer Raben](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/421/421403_50334a.jpg)
Peer Raben
German Empire
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
![Elma Karlowa](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/157/966/157966813_b609bf.jpg)
Elma Karlowa
Yugoslavia
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
SOKO München (1978) (series)
![Almut Eggert](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/157/886/157886406_e5ecc2.jpg)
Almut Eggert
German Empire
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei (1996) (series)
![Hans-Michael Rehberg](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/079/160079829_aad597.jpg)
Hans-Michael Rehberg
German Empire
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
1864 (2014) (series)
La Certosa di Parma (1981) (series)
Annemarie Düringer
Switzerland
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Derrick (1974) (series)
Yaak Karsunke
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)