Unclassified 18+
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 13 parts & 1 Epilogue: 893 mins, Germany, 1979-1980, 35mm, German with English subtitles. Source: Bavaria Film International. Courtesy: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation
Fassbinder & Hann Schygulla during rehearsal for Berlin Alexanderplatz
Monumentally ambitious, Fassbinder's compelling dissection of Berlin low-life between the wars is cinematically forged into one great story arc rather than divided into traditional serialisation - this alone is undeniable genius.
Fresh out of jail and trying to go straight, Franz Biberkopf (Günter Lamprecht) finds 1920s Berlin teeming with temptations and betrayal.
Fassbinder's dramatic panorama of a decadent Weimar Republic lurching toward the Third Reich is littered with broken lives lifted from the pages of Alfred Döblin's celebrated novel and made flesh by a who's who of New German cinema actors. This is an epic, once-in-a-lifetime film event.
"Amazing! One of the most riveting and sheerly alive films ever made. Günter Lamprecht is beyond praise" Newsweek
New 35mm restoration. Presented with kind support of the Goethe Institut, Australia and German Films.
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Dates
Package 1: Thu 20 Nov 2008, 7pm > Parts 1 and 2 Fri 21 Nov 2008, 7pm > Parts 3 and 4 Sat 22 Nov 2008, 7pm > Parts 5 and 6 Sat 22 Nov 2008, 9.20pm > Parts 7 and 8 Sun 23 Nov 2008, 5.30pm > Parts 9 and 10 Sun 23 Nov 2008, 8pm > Parts 11 and 12 Mon 24 Nov 2008, 7pm > Part 13 and Epilogue Package 2: Sat 29 Nov 2008, 1pm > Parts 1 and 2 Sat 29 Nov 2008, 3.40pm > Parts 3 and 4 Sat 29 Nov 2008, 6.10pm > Parts 5 and 6 Sat 29 Nov 2008, 8.30pm > Parts 7 and 8 Sun 30 Nov 2008, 1pm > Parts 9 and 10 Sun 30 Nov 2008, 3.20pm > Parts 11 and 12 Sun 30 Nov 2008, 6pm > Part 13 and Epilogue
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There are two ways to see Berlin Alexanderplatz: > Package 1 screens in seven sessions over five days > Package 2 screens in seven sessions over two days Tickets per Package > Full $56 Concession $35
