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)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
![Günter Lamprecht](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/318/159318141_6e871a.jpg)
Günter Lamprecht
German Empire
Best series:
Babylon Berlin (2017) (series)
Das Boot (1985) (series)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Karlheinz Braun
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
![Hanna Schygulla](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/982/164982607_1e01f8.jpg)
Hanna Schygulla
German Empire
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Peter the Great (1986) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
![Claus Holm](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/712/158712325_37fa35.jpg)
Claus Holm
German Empire
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Raumpatrouille - Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffes Orion (1966) (series)
![Franz Buchrieser](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/166/730/166730144_882f94.jpg)
Franz Buchrieser
Austria
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Mountain Murders (2019) (series)
![Brigitte Mira](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/278/162278181_eaab5b.jpg)
Brigitte Mira
German Empire
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Derrick (1974) (series)
Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten (1992) (series)
![Roger Fritz](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/166/748/166748661_7c0576.jpg)
Roger Fritz
German Empire
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
A Case for Two (1981) (series)
![Gottfried John](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/737/158737774_2f8d59.jpg)
Gottfried John
German Empire
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
The Octopus (1984) (series)
Millennium (1996) (series)
![Barbara Sukowa](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/168/720/168720710_jp3a8h.jpg)
Barbara Sukowa
West Germany
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Servant (2019) (series)
12 Monkeys (2015) (series)
![Günther Kaufmann](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/281/281152_02b9f6.jpg)
Günther Kaufmann
Germany
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Derrick (1974) (series)
SOKO Leipzig (2001) (series)
![Ivan Desny](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/278/278466_8c2e5b.jpg)
Ivan Desny
China
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Mathias Sandorf (1979) (series)
Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes (1975) (series)
Volker Spengler
German Empire
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
![Vitus Zeplichal](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/763/162763213_77618c.jpg)
Vitus Zeplichal
Austria
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Derrick (1974) (series)
![Barbara Valentin](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/396/396109_6e40e4.jpg)
Barbara Valentin
German Empire
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Master Eder and His Pumuckl (1982) (series)
Ein Schloß am Wörthersee (1990) (series)
Herbert Steinmetz
German Empire
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
![Lilo Pempeit](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/405/159405968_fe2dd6.jpg)
Lilo Pempeit
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
![Fritz Schediwy](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/123/159123080_7cf20c.jpg)
Fritz Schediwy
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
![Elisabeth Trissenaar](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/274/274702_db7905.jpg)
Elisabeth Trissenaar
Austria
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Emilie Richards (2009) (series)
Derrick (1974) (series)
![Marquard Bohm](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/605/158605950_b5a31e.jpg)
Marquard Bohm
German Empire
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Im Namen des Gesetzes (1994) (series)
![Hark Bohm](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/289/162289356_65055c.jpg)
Hark Bohm
German Empire
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Bila jednom jedna zemlja (1995) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)