Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)

A FILM IN 13 PARTS & AN EPILOGUE

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.

Created by

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Themes1920sbased on novel or bookberlin, germanybreaking the fourth wallclass struggleex-conhistorical epicinterwar periodnonlinear narrativeperiod drama