Alfred Döblin’s 1929 masterpiece “Berlin Alexanderplatz” opens as Franz Biberkopf is released from prison, having served four years for killing his girlfriend. Determined to make an honest living, he ...

The twin pillars of Alfred Döblin’s epochal 480-page 1929 German-language novel and Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s deeply influential 15-hour miniseries, first broadcast in 1980, together create an ...

When the Criterion Collection released German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Berlin Alexanderplatz as an elaborate seven-disc boxed set last November, The New Yorker magazine wasted no time in ...

'Berlin Alexanderplatz' leads the 2020 German film awards, the Lolas, with 11 nominations, followed by Nora Fingscheidt's social drama 'System Crasher' with 10. By Scott Roxborough Burhan Qurbani’s ...

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EXCLUSIVE: German Films, the agency that promotes German cinema globally, has unveiled the seven participants for the eighth edition of its annual Face to Face campaign, which include talents who have ...