Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte

"There are two paths in this world, one visible and one invisible". Alfred Doeblin.

Classic film - why bother with the recent long remake?

How to shrink a classic novel into 90 minutes and get away with it quite well

Václav Neckár in Closely Watched Trains (1966)

Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis Trintignant, and Pierre Barouh in A Man and a Woman (1966)

Berlin-Alexanderplatz - Die Geschichte Franz Biberkopfs

Maria Bard, Gerhard Bienert, Alfred Döblin, Albert Florath, Heinrich George, Phil Jutzi, Bernhard Minetti, Margarete Schlegel, and Paul Westermeier in Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf (1931)

Look at this, fellows: The man is standing on his legs as long as he has two legs. But it is not about the legs. And it is not about the arm. It's all about what is here inside the chest cabin.

Heinrich George in Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf (1931)

Maria Bard and Heinrich George in Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf (1931)

Maria Bard and Bernhard Minetti in Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf (1931)

Bernhard Minetti and Margarete Schlegel in Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf (1931)

Margarete Schlegel in Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf (1931)

Heinrich George and Margarete Schlegel in Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf (1931)

Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf

Heinrich George

Maria Bard

Margarete Schlegel

Alfred Döblin

Karl Heinz Martin

Hans Wilhelm

Franz Biberkopf has served four years in prison. His return to normal life is not successful.

Phil Jutzi

Döblin&apos;s Berlin, Alexanderplatz is probably a not filmable book anyway. F.e. all the kaleidoscopic elements he has been using like ad slogans, newspaper articles, multiple points of view etc etc etc are really hard to transfer into a movie. Well, it&apos;s expressionistic. And definitely outstanding. RW Fassbinder developed a 13-hour-series (plus a rather personal and debatable epilogue) from the material which imho was partly brilliant and partly awfully boring. Of course, the characters had much room to develop here. Whatever, it seems to have gained &apos;cult&apos; status in some circles. This movie is quite the opposite. It has condensed the original story to a 90-minute-piece which works surprisingly well. Döblin helped with the script, the movie is fast-paced but gets the basic idea of the book. Or better, of it&apos;s main character Biberkopf (and also his opponent Reinhold). So, I recommend watching this as at least a comparison to the RWF series. The shots of 1931 Berlin alone make it worthwhile, they add an &apos;authentic&apos; effect and even Zeitgeist to it (the novel had been published just two years before). That was something the RWF version (shot in 1979) could never really provide.

Döblin's Berlin, Alexanderplatz is probably a not filmable book anyway. F.e. all the kaleidoscopic elements he has been using like ad slogans, newspaper articles, multiple points of view etc etc etc are really hard to transfer into a movie. Well, it's expressionistic. And definitely outstanding. RW Fassbinder developed a 13-hour-series (plus a rather personal and debatable epilogue) from the material which imho was partly brilliant and partly awfully boring. Of course, the characters had much room to develop here. Whatever, it seems to have gained 'cult' status in some circles. This movie is quite the opposite. It has condensed the original story to a 90-minute-piece which works surprisingly well. Döblin helped with the script, the movie is fast-paced but gets the basic idea of the book. Or better, of it's main character Biberkopf (and also his opponent Reinhold). So, I recommend watching this as at least a comparison to the RWF series. The shots of 1931 Berlin alone make it worthwhile, they add an 'authentic' effect and even Zeitgeist to it (the novel had been published just two years before). That was something the RWF version (shot in 1979) could never really provide.

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