East Baton Rouge Parish Library

Berlin Alexanderplatz, Bavaria Film, Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation präsentieren ; [produced by] Peter Märthesheimer [and others] ; [written and directed] von Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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Berlin Alexanderplatz

180688671

Bavaria Film, Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation präsentieren ; [produced by] Peter Märthesheimer [and others] ; [written and directed] von Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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Criterion Collection, 411

Story of Franz Biberkof, a former transportation worker. Newly-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. However, the influences of local cronies, grinding poverty, and the apparent decay of society begin to overwhelm him

Disc 1. Part I, The punishment begins ; Part II, How is one to live if one doesn't want to die? -- Disc 2. Part III, A hammer blow to the head can injure the soul ; Part IV, A handful of people in the depths of silence ; Part V, A reaper with the power of our lord -- Disc 3. Parts VI, Love has its price ; Part VII, Remember- an oath can be amputated ; Part VIII, The suns warms the skin, but burns it sometimes too -- Disc 4. Part IX, About the eternities between the many and the few ; Part X, Loneliness tears cracks of madness even in walls ; Part XI, Knowledge is power and the early bird catches the worm -- Disc 5. Parts XII, The serpent in the soul of the serpent ; Part XIII, The outside and the inside and the secret of fear of the secret -- Disc 6. Epilogue

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live action