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If you’ve read the book, this film version comes as a surprise – how does it manage to make so little of so much? Or is it so much of so little? Döblin co-authored the screenplay, which compresses his sprawling novel into a breathless eighty-eight minutes. Of course, much is sacrificed, but the skeleton plot still compares favourably to that of many modern movies. Technically, too, this flick has aged magnificently – considering this is one of the first German films with sound, what we see and hear is a lot smoother than I’d expected. The cinematography is astonishing by the standards of the decades that followed…

Berlin.Alexanderplatz.Die.Geschichte.Franz.Biberkopfs.1931.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 27 min
Size: 	2.48 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	684x576 
Aspect ratio:  	1.188
Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
Bit rate: 	3 938 kb/s
BPP: 	0.416
Audio
#1:  	German 2.0ch AAC LC @ 122 kb/s

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Language(s):German
Subtitles:English

The post Phil Jutzi – Berlin-Alexanderplatz – Die Geschichte Franz Biberkopfs AKA Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf (1931) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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In the middle of an economic crisis, the workers are living in poverty and struggling to find a little happiness and get a warm meal. Mother Krause lives with her two grown-up children, as well as a shady “bed lodger” and his lover – a prostitute with a child – on just a few square metres. In next to no time, tensions build up, and soon crime is involved too. Mother Krausen’s painstakingly preserved order collapses. This story has lost hardly any of its relevance. In those days, columns of marching workers calling out “Join the ranks!” indicated a possible way out. But the older generation went to the dogs.
The project came about in honour of Heinrich Zille, who had died only a short while before. He had described his “milyeu” in great detail – all that was lacking now was the film. It was shot by Phil Jutzi, who was advised by Kaethe Kollwitz, in the style and spirit of Soviet Russian cinema – the Soviet films being imported and loaned by Prometheus, the production company. Rejecting banal entertainment and commercial success, Jutzi relied on the power of insight. A classic of proletarian cinema – and a key work of the “red dream factory”.

4.86GB | 2h 13mn | 1920×1080 | mkv

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Language(s):German intertitles (with music)
Subtitles:English

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Plot Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Most modern-day viewers are familiar with German author Alfred Doeblin’s naturalistic novel Berlin Alexanderplatz from its epic TV miniseries presentation, directed in 1980 by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The Doeblin work was previously filmed on the very brink of the Nazi takeover in 1933, with Heinrich George as the ex-convict protagonist. Yearning for respectability, George finds he cannot escape the influence of his old criminal cohorts. When George refuses to pay “hush money” to the mob, his faithful wife Margarete Schlegel is killed. George resignedly returns to a life of crime, ultimately descending into madness. The 1933 adaptation of Berlin Alexanderplatz ran a brisk 90 minutes; Fassbinder’s 1980 TV version ran ten times longer.

EXTRAS included
– Documentary about Heinrich George called “Wenn sie mich nur spielen lassen” directed by Irmgard von zur Mühlen
– 9 Trailer
– A PDF containing scans of documents concerning the history of jutzi’s movie (posters, newspaper articles, reviews, protocols concerning the examination of the film by some commision for the protection of youth and school…)

1.06GB | 1:23:31 | 608×448 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/85DA88B2CE5F8D7/Berlin_Alexanderplatz__+_Extras_.part1.rar https://nitro.download/view/7235AC430A82025/Berlin_Alexanderplatz__+_Extras_.part2.rar

Language:German
Subtitles:Only for the Movie: English (srt), German (sub + idx), German (srt)

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