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
Jan George
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Karl Scheydt
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
![Christiane Maybach](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/739/160739478_71457d.jpg)
Christiane Maybach
German Empire
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten (1992) (series)
Wolff's Turf (1992) (series)
Y Sa Lo
Austria
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
![Matthias Fuchs](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/953/162953652_33ceb7.jpg)
Matthias Fuchs
German Empire
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Die Cleveren (1998) (series)
Sonja Neudorfer
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
![Helen Vita](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/512/159512502_c9a1b8.jpg)
Helen Vita
German Empire
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Derrick (1974) (series)
![Rolf Zacher](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/860/159860242_8b478f.jpg)
Rolf Zacher
German Empire
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Der Ochsenkrieg (1987) (series)
Master Eder and His Pumuckl (1982) (series)
![Mechthild Großmann](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/896/159896338_22238a.jpg)
Mechthild Großmann
Germany
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Der Kriminalist (2006) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
![Hermann Lause](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/927/159927616_738dc6.jpg)
Hermann Lause
German Empire
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Der Bastard (1989) (series)
Schimanski (1997) (series)
![Traute Hoess](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/038/160038887_8c5311.jpg)
Traute Hoess
West Germany
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Schimanski (1997) (series)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
![Marie-Luise Marjan](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/876/160876348_13aa72.jpg)
Marie-Luise Marjan
German Empire
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Jim Knopf (2000) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
![Roland Schäfer](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/164/160164222_da21fd.jpg)
Roland Schäfer
German Empire
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Der Kriminalist (2006) (series)
Der letzte Zeuge (1998) (series)
![Werner Asam](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/221/160221863_d1c944.jpg)
Werner Asam
German Empire
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Die Toten vom Bodensee (2014) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Herb Andress
Austria
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
![Rainer Will](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/424/162424280_a3ef9d.png)
Rainer Will
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Der Kriminalist (2006) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
![Jan Groth](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/478/160478591_1613b4.jpg)
Jan Groth
Poland
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Derrick (1974) (series)
Juliane Lorenz
West Germany
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
The Officer Factory (1989) (series)
Jürgen Draeger
German Empire
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Derrick (1974) (series)
Wolfried Lier
German Empire
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Derrick (1974) (series)