Berlin Alexanderplatz

 

Year: 1980

Time: 941 min.

 

Series: The Criterion Collection

Edition #: 411

Release Date: Tuesday, 13 November 2007

MSRP: $124.95

 

DVD

7 Discs

1.33:1

German Dolby Digital Mono 1.0

Subtitles: English

Region 1

 

 Two new documentaries by Fassbinder Foundation president Juliane Lorenz: one featuring interviews with the cast and crew, the other on the restoration   Hans-Dieter Hartl’s 1980 documentary Notes on the Making of “Berlin Alexanderplatz”   Phil Jutzi’s 1931, ninety-minute film of Alfred Döblin’s novel, from a screenplay co-written by Döblin himself   New video interview with Peter Jelavich, author of Berlin Alexanderplatz: Radio, Film, and the Death of Weimar Culture   A book featuring an essay by filmmaker Tom Tykwer, reflections from Fassbinder, an interview with Xaver Schwarzenberger, and German author Thomas Steinfeld on the novel