Berlin Alexanderplatz

“A FILM IN 13 PARTS & AN EPILOGUE”

19801h 0m / epDrama · Crime

First aired

October 12, 1980

7.5

TMDB Score

75% match · 52 votes

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S01 · E02

How Is One to Live If One Doesn’t Want to Die?

Limited Series · Oct 13, 1980 · 1h 0m

Biberkopf is self-employed, hawking necktie holders on the street, but has trouble making enough and doesn't consider himself an orator. After turning down the opportunity to sell sex ed manuals, he's talked into selling the Nazi newspaper Völkischer Beobachter and wearing a swastika armband. In the subway, Franz is confronted by a Jewish man selling hot sausages, but denies being antisemitic, and Dreske with two other men also known to him. Dreske admires Lenin and the Soviet Union, but Franz responds by decrying revolution and 'their' Weimar Republic.

About the Series

Berlin Alexanderplatz poster
DramaCrime

Synopsis

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.

CreatorRainer Werner Fassbinder

First aired
October 12, 1980
Last aired
December 29, 1980
Seasons
1 season · 14 episodes
Status
Ended
Original language
German
Network
Das Erste

Top Billed Cast

Günter Lamprecht

Günter Lamprecht

Franz Biberkopf

Hanna Schygulla

Hanna Schygulla

Eva

Gottfried John

Gottfried John

Reinhold

Barbara Sukowa

Barbara Sukowa

Emilie "Mieze" Karsunke

Franz Buchrieser

Franz Buchrieser

Meck

Ivan Desny

Ivan Desny

Pums

Brigitte Mira

Brigitte Mira

Frau Bast

Claus Holm

Claus Holm

Max

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Narrator (voice, uncredited)

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