Berlin Alexanderplatz [German]

Starring: Gunter Lamprecht, Peter Kollek, Mechthild Grossmann, et al.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder's wildly controversial fifteen-hour-plus Berlin Alexanderplatz, based on Alfred Doblin's great modernist novel, was the crowning achievement of a prolific director who, at age thirty-four, had already made forty films. Fassbinder's immersive epic, restored in 2006 and available on DVD in this country for the first time, follows the hulking, violent, yet strangely childlike ex-convict Franz Biberkopf (Gunter Lamprecht) as he attempts to become an honest soul amidst the corrosive urban landscape of Weimar-era Germany. With equal parts cynicism and humanity, Fassbinder details a mammoth portrait of a common man struggling to survive in a viciously uncommon time.

• Format: Blu-ray
• Language: German
• UPC: 715515226417
• Release Date: January 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Publisher: Criterion Collection
• Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• Starring: Gunter Lamprecht, Peter Kollek, Mechthild Grossmann, Hans Zander, Yaak Karsunke
• Runtime: 15 hours, 41 minutes
• Number of Disks: 4
• Other Video Info: widescreen
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.4" x 7.5" x 0.7"