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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

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 27 min
Size: 	2.48 GiB
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Resolution: 	684x576 
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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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I don’t hesitate to call “Das Lied ist aus” one of the great masterpieces of early German cinema. It is one of the best and most stylish of all the Weimar musical sound films, and it’s unusual for its strongly melancholic undertone and unhappy ending. It can also be regarded as one of the defining films for the team of actor Willi Forst, director Geza von Bolváry and scriptwriter Walter Reisch. Forst fully established his screen persona here: the witty, elegant, but also fragile and thoughtful gentleman, although he was a much too versatile actor to be pinned-down to such keywords. Forst is paired here with the equally stunning Liane Haid, very charming and womanly, and the chemistry these two have has rarely been achieved again in later films with Forst (but check out “Der Prinz von Arkadien” with the same team!).

1.36GB | 1 h 34 min | 762×572 | mkv

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Language:German
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

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

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