Berlin Alexanderplatz

 

Year: 1980

Time: 941 min.

 

Series: The Criterion Collection

Edition #: 411

Release Date: Tuesday, 12 February 2019

MSRP: $99.95

 

Blu-ray

4 Discs

1.37:1

German PCM Mono 1.0

Subtitles: English

Region A

 

 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