Berlin Alexanderplatz

Alfred Döblin's novel Berlin Alexanderplatz, published in 1929, takes place in a world of pimps and small-time criminals in the pre-War years. It was the key literary experience for Fassbinder when he read it at the tender age of 14. When, 20 years later, a major German TV station commissioned him to film this Expressionist classic, what he produced was less a filming of a book in the usual sense (which was also hardly to be expected of the enfant terrible of New Ge... >Voir plus