TY  - ADVS
AU  - Fassbinder,Rainer Werner
AU  - Döblin,Alfred
ED  - TeleCulture, Inc.
ED  - Vandham Productions.
TI  - Berlin Alexanderplatz
PY  - 1984///, c1983
CY  - New York, N.Y.
PB  - MGM/UA Home Video
KW  - Feature films
N1  - Originally shown on German television in 13 parts and an epilogue. This is the original, uncut version; Subtitles in English; Based on Alfred Döblin's novel, set in pre-Nazi Berlin; Günter Lamprecht, Hanna Schygulla, Barbara Sukowa, Elisabeth Trissenaar
N2  - Story of Franz Biberkopf, a former transportation worker. When we first see Franz, he has just been released from prison where he has served four years for an irrational act of violence. He returns to his Berlin neighborhood resolved to go straight. At first, he is able to honor his vow of decency, but then forces outside him, his environment, the influences of his cronies, the grinding poverty, and the decay of society ... overwhelm him, and he begins his duel with Fate
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