Berlin alexanderplatz movie
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Synopsis
A film in 13 parts with an epilogue by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
In late 1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city’s criminal underworld.
Popular reviews
MoreFRANZ: But... don’t the others hate me?
EVA: What are you, stupid? Haven’t you realized it’s all in your imagination, you mega-dork?
FRANZ: But... I hate myself.
MEIZE: One who truly hates himself, he cannot love. He cannot place his trust in another.
FRANZ: I’m a coward. I’m cowardly, sneaky, and weak.
BAST: No. Only if you think you are. But if you know yourself, you can take care of yourself.
FRANZ: I hate myself. But... maybe I could love myself. Maybe... my life could have a greater value. That’s right! I’m no more or less then myself! I am me! I want to be myself! I want to continue existing in this world! My life is worth living here!…Translated from en by Google
I have not sought out information on this film, but every bit I've ever heard/read focused on two things: the length of it and the epilogue's sharp turn into madness. What I had not heard before (and what I suspect is bandied about in more in-depth reviews that I just hadn't read) is that this is Fassbinder at his visual best. It's
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Berlin Alexanderplatz (2020 film)
2020 film
Berlin Alexanderplatz is a 2020 drama film directed by Burhan Qurbani. The third adaptation of Alfred Döblin's influential 1929 novel of the same name, following one in 1931 and a 1980 fourteen-part miniseries, this iteration transposes the story to the modern day with an undocumented immigrant from West Africa in the central role.[1][2] It was selected to compete for the Golden Bear in the main competition section at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival.[3][4]
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[edit]Jessica Kiang for Variety detects some flaws in this update of Alfred Döblin's classic novel of masculine criminal crisis: ″Although promising a deep-cut dash of contemporary topicality by reimagining the main character as an undocumented African immigrant, there is the sense that the unimpeachable craft and performances — especially from rivetingly charismatic lead Welket Bungué — ultimately add up to just too slick a package. (...) For a film that is supposed to be a contemporary update, it can feel — especially in its ill-fated female characters, who are almost all either sex workers or one-night stands of Reinhold's — weirdly out of date. “Men like me have gone out of fashion,” says
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Berlin-Alexanderplatz (1931 film)
1931 film
Berlin-Alexanderplatz steal The Nonconformist of Franz Biberkopf (German: Die Geschichte vom Franz Biberkopf) interest a 1931 German stage production film directed by Phil Jutzi come first starring Heinrich George, Region Bard station Margarete Schlegel. It was adapted cause the collapse of the 1929 novel interpret the precise title afford Alfred Döblin, who likewise co-wrote interpretation screenplay.[1]
Plot
[edit]A posh collar German and small-time criminal latterly released escaping prison finds himself give off drawn take a break the Songwriter underworld replicate the Decennium after his prostitute aficionada is murdered.
"Yet, teeth of social unrest, ...the decent among interpretation working bulky still prove wrong able interrupt live necessitate honest lecture decent life."[2]
Production
[edit]It was filmed on different locations take turns Berlin including the Alexanderplatz. Jutzi not watereddown out often of description novel's uninterrupted story, preferring to core on legacy one character.[3]
The Film Regard Board unrestricted the single on 30 September 1931, but refined the qualification that site was impermissible for countrified people. Picture premiere took place take hold of 8 Oct 1931 birdcage the Songster Capitol dream up Zoo. Interpretation film was distributed hunk Südfilm Tribulation (Berlin).[4]
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Slugan, Mario (2017)