Berlin Alexanderplatz: Discs 6 & 7
Berlin Alexanderplatz: Discs 6 & 7
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Rainer Fassbinder's epic, 15-hour-plus adaptation of Alfred Doblin''s novel is a sweeping German television production that follows a man (Gunter Lamprecht), fresh out of prison, as he navigates Berlin and its temptations in the years between the two wars. Stars Fassbinder regular Hanna Schygulla and Franz Buchrieser, Gottfried John, Barbara Sukowa, and many more. In German with Rainer W. Fassbinder---West Germany/Italy---1980---940 mins.

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  | JohnH#1

Excruciating saga of life among losers in Berlin's underworld in 1928. Drama, such as it is, revolves aroun a small-time pimp and burglar named Biberkopf (Beaverhead). By and large the characters are not interesiing. On top of that, action pauses periodically for philosohical musings. I felt like skipping over them like I skipped over the moralizing chapers in Fielding's "Tom Jones" to get to the action. (Richardson's film stuck to the action. Too bad Fassbinder didn't follow that example.) Along about the third episode the film became "langweilig" (tedious). Then there is the epilogue, a Walpurgisnacht mish mash which, I think, tries to show that Biberkopf's live had some cosmic signifigance. Or maybe it didn't. I haven't felt so stupified since I sat throug a non-stop performance of Wagner's Ring Cycle.

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