Berlin Alexanderplatz
(1980)
Originaltitel: Berlin Alexanderplatz
Release: 1980-10-12
TV-bolag: WDR
Längd per avsnitt: 60 min min
Status: AVSLUTAD
Fassbinders episka berättelse om Franz Biberkopf är en av tv-historiens verkliga milstolpar. Baserad på Alfred Döblins 1920-talsroman skildrar den Biberkopfs tröstlösa försök att återvända till ett drägligt liv efter fyra år i fängelse. Men serien är lika mycket en innerlig betraktelse av den tidens Berlin, och människorna i kvarteren kring Alexanderplatz.
Ekonomin i 1920-talets Tyskland är i fritt fall och levnadsbetingelserna därefter. Franz hyser dock stark... (TheTVDB)
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The Punishment Begins
1980-10-12
The Punishment...
1980-10-12
In 1928 Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released after serving four years in Tegel prison for killing his girlfriend Ida. After settling into his old apartment he visits Minna, Ida’s sister. Minna succumbs to his forceful advances. In a flashback we see Franz kill Ida with a cream whip after...
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How is One to Live if One Doesn’t...
1980-10-13
How is One to Live...
1980-10-13
Franz employs himself by hocking tie holders on the street but has trouble making enough money. He is talked into selling the fascist newspaper Völkischer Beobachter and wearing a swastika armband. At Max’s bar, Franz is confronted by an old acquaintance named Dreske. Dreske and his friends sing...
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A Hammer Blow to the Head Can Injure...
1980-10-20
A Hammer Blow to...
1980-10-20
Lina is troubled by the shady nature of the jobs Franz is getting and has him meet a family friend, Otto Lüders, who has Franz join him selling shoelaces door-to-door. In one apartment, Franz encounters a woman whose deceased husband he closely resembles. He has sex with the widow and later tells...
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A Handful of People in the Depths of...
1980-10-27
A Handful of People...
1980-10-27
Franz goes on an alcohol binge as a former medical orderly looks over him. He runs into Meck on the street one day. Meck had been living with Lina until she left him.
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A Reaper with the Power of Our Lord
1980-11-03
A Reaper with the...
1980-11-03
Franz becomes re-acquainted with Eva, for whom he used to be a pimp and who feels a deep affection for him. At Max’s, Meck introduces Franz to Pums, the ringleader of an illegal enterprise. He also meets Reinhold, one of Pums’s men. Reinhold is tired of his woman, Fränze, and wants Franz to...
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Love Has Its Price
1980-11-10
Love Has Its Price
1980-11-10
Reinhold is desperate to get rid of his current woman, Trude, but Franz won’t take her and wants to stick with Cilly. Franz gets sucked into Pums’s gang when he is drafted for a job as a last-minute replacement for Bruno, who gets beaten in the street. Franz ends up as a lookout as Pums,...
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Remember—An Oath can be Amputated
1980-11-17
Remember—An Oath...
1980-11-17
Franz has survived the car accident, but his right arm has been amputated. He recuperates for a time with Eva and Eva’s lover Herbert. Herbert agitates against Pums’s syndicate, so the boss decides to take up a collection to help with Franz’s medical costs. Franz goes to a red light street...
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The Sun Warms the Skin, but Burns it...
1980-11-24
The Sun Warms the...
1980-11-24
Franz gets involved in an illegal enterprise with Willy, whom he met at a cabaret. Eva and Herbert drop by to see Franz and bring a young woman they offer as a new lover. Franz and the tender-hearted woman, whom he names Mieze, fall for each other. However, their spell of love is broken when Franz...
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About the Eternities Between the Many...
1980-12-01
About the...
1980-12-01
Eva explain to Franz that Mieze just wants to work to support him as Franz cannot do so due to his missing arm. He reconciles with Mieze. Franz goes to Reinhold’s and tells him how he has become a pimp. Reinhold is disgusted by Franz’s stump of an arm. Franz is inspired by a Communist rally and...
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Loneliness Tears Cracks of Madness Even...
1980-12-08
Loneliness Tears...
1980-12-08
As Mieze cannot have children, Eva tells her she will have a child with Franz that Mieze can then raise. Mieze is delighted. Eva also tells Mieze she’s concerned that Franz is concerting with Willy and Communists. Mieze gets him to agree to stay out of politics. After Mieze describes the...
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Knowledge is Power and the Early Bird...
1980-12-15
Knowledge is Power...
1980-12-15
Franz goes to Reinhold and tells him he wants to get involved with Pums again. Reinhold still has his suspicions but Franz is allowed to assist the gang with a job. Mieze is upset that Franz is earning money because she thinks Franz wants to be independent of her, but Franz reassures her. Franz...
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The Serpent in the Soul of the Serpent
1980-12-22
The Serpent in the...
1980-12-22
Franz introduces Mieze to Meck. Reinhold blackmails Meck to set up a meeting for him with Mieze. Meck takes Mieze on a drive to Freienwalde and delivers her to Reinhold. Reinhold takes her for a walk in the woods, where she resists his advances. Mieze wants to know more about Franz, and Reinhold...
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The Outside and the Inside and the...
1980-12-29
The Outside and the...
1980-12-29
Franz tells Eva that Mieze has left him. Eva reassures him, though she is a bit concerned herself. A robbery pulled off by Pums’s gang goes wrong and Meck burns himself with a welding torch. Franz takes Meck to his apartment to bandage his wound. Meck tells Franz that Reinhold is a bad guy, but...
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My Dream of the Dream of Franz...
1980-12-29
My Dream of the...
1980-12-29
In a fantasy sequence, Franz walks along a street of the dead with two angels. He finds Mieze, but she disappears from his arms. Reinhold is in prison for the crimes committed by a man whose identity he has acquired. He is anguished that his cellmate and lover is being released. Franz is taken to...
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