Berlin Alexanderplatz

Franz Biberkopf is a good-natured, soft, tender, but also hard, violent, and brutal man who lives in Berlin in the end of the 20’s. He wanders through the city without perspectives, goals, or work. All that keeps him going is the belief that human beings are good, no matter how rotten they are. The story begins when Franz Biberkopf leaves Tegel prison after serving four years for manslaughter. Drifting about Berlin, he decides to start a new life. He has a few people he can count on: his ex-girlfriend Eva, now working as a high-class prostitute, as well as the down-to-earth innkeeper and his wife. But no one finds work for him. Feeling superfluous, unwanted and unloved, he crawls away and drinks. With a running time of approximately 15 hours, Berlin Alexanderplatz is a monument of late 20th-century filmmaking and is seen by many as the consummate expression of film giant Rainer Werner Fassbinder´s vision of humanity.

Born in Bad Wörishofen, Germany, in 1945. He was one of the most versatile authors in contemporary cinema. The more than 40 titles of features and series, produced since 1969, marked the German cinema by showing Fassbinder’s unique, irreverent and critical style. He lived for his unstoppable creativity, also working as an author and writing his own scripts for cinema and theater. Among his most important works are Love Is Colder than Death (1969), Beware of a Holy Whore (1971), The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972), Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1973), Chinese Roulette (1976, 8th Mostra), Despair (1978, 35th Mostra), The Marriage of Maria Braun (1978, 4th Mostra), the miniseries Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980, 9 th Mostra), Veronika Voss (1982), winner of Golden Bear at Berlinale, and Querelle (1982). Died in Munich in 1982 at the age of 37.

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA