Berlin Alexanderplatz [7 Discs] [Criterion Collection]
Features:
- New high-definition digital transfer form the 2006 restoration by the Fassbinder Foundation and Bavaria Media, supervised and approved by director of photography Xaver Schwarzenberger
- Two new documentaries by Fassbinder Foundation president Juliane Lorenz: one featuring interviews with the cast and crew (on disc six), the other on the restoration
- Hans-Dieter Hartl's 1980 documetnary Notes on the Making of "Berlin Alexanderplatz"
- Phil Jutzi's 1931, ninety-minute film of Alfred Döblin himself
- New video interview with Peter Jelavich, author of Berlin Alexanderplatz: Radio, Film, and the Death of Weimar Culture
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- Plus: a book featuring an essay by filmmaker Tom Tykwer, reflections from Fassbinder, and interview with Schwarzenberger, and German author Thomas Steinfeld on the novel
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- Disc #1 -- Berlin Alexanderplatz: Parts I-II
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- Part I: The Punishment Begins
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- Part II: How Is One to Live if One Doesn't Want to Die?
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- Disc #2 -- Berlin Alexanderplatz: Parts III-V
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- Part III: A Hammer Blow to the Head Can Injure the Soul
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- Part IV: A Handful of People in the Depths of Silence
- Part V: A Reaper With the Power of Our Lord
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- Disc #3 -- Berlin Alexanderplatz: Parts VI-VIII
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- Part VI: Love Has Its Price
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- Part VII: Remember - An Oath Can Be Amputated
- Part VIII: The Sun Warms the Skin, But Burns It Sometimes Too
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- Disc #4 -- Berlin Alexanderplatz: Parts IX-XI
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- Part IX: About the Eternities Between the Many and the Few
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- Part X: Loneliness Tears Cracks of Madness Even in Walls
- Part XI: Knowledge Is Power and the Early Bird Catches the Worm
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- Disc #5 -- Berlin Alexanderplatz: Parts XII-XIII
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- Part XII: The Serpent in the Soul of the Serpent
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- Part XIII: The Outside and the Inside and the Secret of Fear of the Secret
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- Disc #6 -- Berlin Alexanderplatz: Epilogue
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- Disc #7 -- Berlin Alexanderplatz: The Supplements
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- "Berlin Alexanderplatz" Remastered
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- Berlin Alexanderplatz, 1931 Version
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- Disc #1 -- Berlin Alexanderplatz: Parts I-II
- 1. Opening Credits [1:42]
- 2. I. "The Punishment Begins" [7:59]
- 3. Instruction Through the Example of Zannowich [7:29]
- 4. The Invigorating Effect This Has on the Released Prisoner [9:01]
- 5. Mampe's Brandy [8:20]
- 6. Ida's Sister [10:19]
- 7. Chapter 7 [6:33]
- 8. "I Just Brought the Aprons" [7:01]
- 9. A Drink With Meck and Polish Lina [5:46]
- 10. Fran's Oath [8:09]
- 11. "Franz Biberkopf Is On His Way" [10:43]
- 12. Closing Credits [2:21]
- 1. Opening Credits [1:30]
- 2. II. "How Is One to Live If One Doesn't Want to Die?" [7:36]
- 3. Pictures of Naked People [4:45]
- 4. Lina Takes on the Newspaperman [11:03]
- 5. The Neue Welt [8:27]
- 6. Selling the Völkischer Beobachter [10:02]
- 7. "The Watch on the Rhine" [16:55]
- 8. Closing Credits [1:49]
- Disc #2 -- Berlin Alexanderplatz: Parts III-V
- 1. Opening Credits [1:42]
- 2. III. "A Hammer Blow to the Head Can Injure the Soul" [8:54]
- 3. "I'm in Shoelaces Now" [3:53]
- 4. The Lucky Left Side [5:48]
- 5. Lüders Goes Left [7:45]
- 6. White Carnations [8:46]
- 7. "Franz Is Gone" [5:49]
- 8. Lüder's Apartment [4:17]
- 9. There Must Be Some Flaw in It [6:34]
- 10. Fontanestrasse 17 [5:48]
- 11. Closing Credits [2:28]
- 1. Opening Credits [1:31]
- 2. IV. "A Handful of People in the Depths of Silence" [5:40]
- 3. The Wink [10:22]
- 4. Running to the Preacher [5:17]
- 5. Man's Fate Is Like That of the Beasts [4:29]
- 6. Job in the Cabbage Patch [6:16]
- 7. A Lamb to Slaughter [1:01]
- 8. On This Day, His First Sores Healed [6:18]
- 9. "I Don't Rat on Anyone" [4:17]
- 10. "You'll Be Leaving Us Soon" [5:06]
- 11. Arrested [9:29]
- 12. Closing Credits [1:54]
- 1. Opening Credits [1:31]
- 2. V. "A Reaper With the Power of Our Lord" [7:15]
- 3. Eva [3:29]
- 4. Reinhold and Fränze [5:32]
- 5. Franz and Fränze [4:29]
- 6. More Window-Shopping [6:34]
- 7. Dishwater [5:29]
- 8. Cilly [7:57]
- 9. The Salvation Army [8:55]
- 10. "If Reinhold's Scum, You're Even Worse" [8:39]
- 11. Closing Credits [1:54]
- Disc #3 -- Berlin Alexanderplatz: Parts VI-VIII
- 1. Opening Credits [1:42]
- 2. VI. "Love Has Its Price" [8:07]
- 3. "Pums Needs More People" [9:29]
- 4. Sunday, April 8, 1928 [4:39]
- 5. "Good Evening, Mr. Pums" [5:33]
- 6. The Job [9:44]
- 7. "This Is the Men's Room" [6:29]
- 8. "Is He Dead?" [3:34]
- 9. Trude [6:19]
- 10. Driving to Elsässerstrasse [3:30]
- 11. Closing Credits [2:02]
- 1. Opening Credits [1:31]
- 2. VII. "Remember - An Oath Can Be Amputated" [12:46]
- 3. "I Never Blew the Whistle on Anyone" [6:23]
- 4. "You're Always Crying" [3:08]
- 5. Great Babylon [6:11]
- 6. Three Beers and One Schnapps [8:11]
- 7. "Yesterday Was Yesterday" [6:22]
- 8. Either I'm a Free Man or No Man at All [9:05]
- 9. "Would You Just Walk Around a Bit?" [4:52]
- 10. Closing Credits [2:09]
- 1. Opening Credits [1:32]
- 2. VIII. "The Sun Warms the Skin, But Burns It Sometimes Too" [12:15]
- 3. Working With Willy [3:13]
- 4. "I've Got a Girl for You" [10:02]
- 5. Mieze [5:03]
- 6. "She's as Gentle as a Feather" [3:28]
- 7. A Gift From Mieze [7:50]
- 8. "Knocked Down" [4:00]
- 9. "My Mieze Got a Love Letter" [5:10]
- 10. Mieze and Eva in a Taxi [3:04]
- 11. Eva Tells Franz [3:21]
- 12. Closing Credits [2:11]
- Disc #4 -- Berlin Alexanderplatz: Parts IX-XI
- 1. Opening Credits [1:42]
- 2. "You Must Go Find Mieze!" [4:25]
- 3. Mosesstrasse at the Fence [5:04]
- 4. IX. "About the Eternities Between the Many and the Few" [3:13]
- 5. "Nothing at All, Reinhold" [11:48]
- 6. Shoeshine [5:06]
- 7. "Then You Killed Ida..." [9:13]
- 8. The German Reich Is a Republic... [4:12]
- 9. Organizations [7:31]
- 10. "That Awful Guy Franz Biberkopf" [6:44]
- 11. Closing Credits [2:23]
- 1. Opening Credits [1:31]
- 2. A Baby From Franz [10:04]
- 3. Nietzsche [6:22]
- 4. Visiting Tegel [6:52]
- 5. "It's Starting All Over Again" [3:34]
- 6. X. "Loneliness Tears Cracks of Madness Even in Walls" [11:08]
- 7. A Visit From Eva [2:56]
- 8. Franz and Herbert Wait in the Car for Eva [4:55]
- 9. The Serpent in the Soul of the Serpent [12:35]
- 10. Closing Credits [1:59]
- 1. Opening Credits [1:31]
- 2. XI. "Knowledge Is Power and the Early Bird Catches the Worm" [5:41]
- 3. "Maybe Franz Wants to Get His Arm Back..." [3:38]
- 4. The Sinners' Bench [3:19]
- 5. Bruno Brings 200 Marks [7:08]
- 6. Reinhold and Mieze Meet [9:24]
- 7. Reinhold and Franz Discuss Mieze [5:12]
- 8. Two Surprises [11:19]
- 9. "Reinhold Is One of Them" [3:54]
- 10. "I Wanted to Show Him a Decent Girl" [7:39]
- 11. Closing Credits [2:45]
- Disc #5 -- Berlin Alexanderplatz: Parts XII-XIII
- 1. Opening Credits [1:43]
- 2. "Everything Is So Clean in Her Room" [7:58]
- 3. The Thieves' Den [5:21]
- 4. XII. "The Serpent in the Soul of the Serpent" [6:26]
- 5. Monday, September 1, 1928 [5:07]
- 6. Freienwalde [8:45]
- 7. Reinhold and Mieze Take a Walk [9:23]
- 8. A Reaper Whose Name Is Death [15:11]
- 9. Closing Credits [2:06]
- 1. Opening Credits [1:32]
- 2. XIII. "The Outside and the Inside and the Secret of Fear of the Secret" [9:30]
- 3. When the Forest Stands... [4:00]
- 4. Rudi's Plan [9:34]
- 5. Safecracking [2:43]
- 6. A Salve for the Burn [6:11]
- 7. After Hours at Max's [3:51]
- 8. The Injustice of Everything [4:55]
- 9. "Me and Reinhold...and Murder" [6:00]
- 10. "Why Am I Laughing?" [10:57]
- 11. Closing Credits [1:15]
- 12. "The Man Is Finished" [:46]
- Disc #6 -- Berlin Alexanderplatz: Epilogue
- 1. "Everything Will Be Illuminated" [13:15]
- 2. Franz's Arrest [2:10]
- 3. Reinhold in Prison [7:09]
- 4. The Death of a Child and the Birth of a Worthwhile Human Being [6:03]
- 5. Franz in the Observation Room [4:33]
- 6. "Medicine on the Wings of Song!" [6:11]
- 7. Flagellation [4:25]
- 8. The Rats Lead Franz to Mieze [5:41]
- 9. Baumann [10:19]
- 10. "I'm Suffering" [8:45]
- 11. Reinhold [8:41]
- 12. Lüders [7:35]
- 13. Boxing Match [5:02]
- 14. Ida [4:54]
- 15. Mieze [2:28]
- 16. "Rest Easy, Dear Fatherland" [6:48]
- 17. Trial [5:17]
- 18. Assistant Gatekeeper Franz Biberkopf [3:28]
- 19. Closing Credits [4:18]
- 1. Jogging the Memory [13:25]
- 2. Creating Mieze [6:40]
- 3. A Logistical Nightmare [21:38]
- 4. Politics Then and Now [8:11]
- 5. A Difficult Scene [9:57]
- 6. Reflections on RWF [5:14]
- Disc #7 -- Berlin Alexanderplatz: The Supplements
- 1. Leaving Tegel [6:45]
- 2. Maxie's [5:44]
- 3. Tie Clips on the Alexanderplatz [5:59]
- 4. Singing and Fisticuffs [8:34]
- 5. The Job [6:47]
- 6. The Hospital [6:53]
- 7. Freienwalde [4:17]
- 8. Franz Returns [9:12]
- 9. The Neue Welt [6:34]
- 10. Mieze's Old Friend [5:30]
- 11. Reinhold and Mieze [4:35]
- 12. Bad News [8:16]
- 13. Back to the Alexanderplatz [4:39]
Year released: 1980
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Format: No information available
Length: 940
Sound: DD1
Subtitles: Eng
Studio: Criterion