{"product_id":"berlin-alexanderplatz-by-rainer-werner-fassbinder-dvd","title":"Berlin Alexanderplatz [DVD]","description":"\u003cp\u003eRainer Werner Fassbinder’s controversial, fifteen-hour-plus Berlin Alexanderplatz, based on Alfred Döblin’s great modernist novel, was the crowning achievement of a prolific director who, at age thirty-four, had already made forty films. Fassbinder’s immersive epic, restored in 2006 and now available on DVD in this country for the first time, follows the hulking, childlike ex-convict Franz Biberkopf (Günter Lamprecht) as he attempts to “become an honest soul” amid the corrosive urban landscape of Weimar-era Germany. With equal parts cynicism and humanity, Fassbinder details a mammoth portrait of a common man struggling to survive in a viciously uncommon time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSPECIAL EDITION SEVEN-DISC SET:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-New high-definition digital transfer from the 2006 restoration by the Fassbinder Foundation and Bavaria Media, supervised and approved by director of photography Xaver Schwarzenberger\u003cbr\u003e-Two new documentaries by Fassbinder Foundation president Juliane Lorenz: one featuring interviews with the cast and crew, the other on the restoration\u003cbr\u003e-Hans-Dieter Hartl’s 1980 documentary Notes on the Making of “Berlin Alexanderplatz”\u003cbr\u003e-Phil Jutzi’s 1931, ninety-minute film of Alfred Döblin’s novel, from a screenplay co-written by Döblin himself\u003cbr\u003e-New video interview with Peter Jelavich, author of Berlin Alexanderplatz: Radio, Film, and the Death of Weimar Culture\u003cbr\u003e-New and improved English subtitle translation\u003cbr\u003e-PLUS: A book featuring an essay by filmmaker Tom Tykwer, reflections from Fassbinder, an interview with Schwarzenberger, and German author Thomas Steinfeld on the novel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDirected by \u003cspan\u003eRainer Werner Fassbinder\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1980\u003cbr\u003e940 Minutes\u003cbr\u003eColor\u003cbr\u003eRegion 1\/NTSC Format \u003cbr\u003eMonaural in German with optional English subtitles\u003cbr\u003eThe Criterion Collection\u003cbr\u003eISBN B000VARC2S\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":7233806597,"sku":"B000VARC2S","price":124.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/products\/Rainer-Werner-Fassbinder_Berlin-Alexanderplatz-DVD.jpg?v=1593115668","url":"https:\/\/neue-galerie-design-shop.myshopify.com\/products\/berlin-alexanderplatz-by-rainer-werner-fassbinder-dvd","provider":"Neue Galerie Design Shop \u0026 Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}