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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 · E03

A Hammer Blow to the Head Can Injure the Soul

Limited Series · Oct 20, 1980 · 59m

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E01▶

The Punishment Begins

Oct 12, 1980 · 1h 22m

E02▶

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

Oct 13, 1980 · 1h 0m

E03Playing

A Hammer Blow to the Head Can Injure the Soul

Oct 20, 1980 · 59m

E04▶

A Handful of People in the Depths of Silence

Oct 27, 1980 · 59m

E05▶

A Grim Reaper with Powers from Almighty God

Nov 3, 1980 · 1h 0m

E06▶

Love Has Its Price

Nov 10, 1980 · 59m

E07▶

Remember—An Oath Can Be Amputated

Nov 17, 1980 · 58m

E08▶

The Sun Warms the Skin, But Burns It Sometimes Too

Nov 24, 1980 · 59m

E09▶

About the Eternities Between the Many and the Few

Dec 1, 1980 · 59m

E10▶

Loneliness Tears Cracks of Madness Even in Walls

Dec 8, 1980 · 1h 0m

E11▶

Knowledge Is Power and the Early Bird Catches the Worm

Dec 15, 1980 · 59m

E12▶

The Serpent in the Soul of the Serpent

Dec 22, 1980 · 1h 0m

E13▶

The Outside and the Inside and the Secret of Fear of the Secret

Dec 29, 1980 · 59m

E14▶

My Dream of the Dream of Franz Biberkopf by Alfred Döblin, An Epilogue

Dec 29, 1980 · 1h 52m

Troubled by the dubious nature of Franz's job, Lina introduces him to family friend Otto Lüders, who turns out to be an ex-con he knows from prison, but Franz thinks Otto is good. With him, Franz begins selling shoelaces. In the first apartment, he spends time with a widow whose deceased husband he closely resembles. Later, to Otto, he reports having sex with the widow. Otto visits the widow, expecting the same, but she feels threatened and rejects him. Otto demands money and steals from her. When Franz goes back to the widow, happily expecting another tryst, she slams the door on him. Franz vanishes.

About the Series

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