Berlin Alexanderplatz (miniseries) (1980)
Berlin Alexanderplatz originally broadcast in 1980, is a 14-part West German television miniseries, adapted and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder from the Alfred Döblin novel of the same name, and stars Günter Lamprecht, Hanna Schygulla, Barbara Sukowa, Elisabeth Trissenaar and Gottfried John. The complete series is 15½ hours long. In 1983, it was released theatrically in the United States, where a theatre would show two or three parts per night. It garnered a cult following in the US and was eventually released on VHS and broadcast on PBS and then Bravo.
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Cast:
- Annemarie Düringer – Cilly
- Barbara Sukowa – Emilie "Mieze" Karsunke
- Barbara Valentin – Ida
- Brigitte Mira – Frau Bast
- Claus Holm – Wirt
- Elisabeth Trissenaar – Lina
- Elma Karlowa – Frau Greiner
- Franz Buchrieser – Meck
- Gottfried John – Reinhold Hoffmann
- Günter Lamprecht
- Günter Lamprecht – Franz Biberkopf
- Günther Kaufmann – Theo
- Hanna Schygulla – Eva
- Hans Michael Rehberg – Kommissar
- Hark Bohm – Otto Luders
- Helen Vita – Fränze
- Ivan Desny – Pums
- Gottfried John
- Bata Kameni
- Karin Baal – Minna
- Kurt Weinzierl – Orator
- Lilo Pempeit
- Roger Fritz – Herbert
- Hanna Schygulla
- Barbara Sukowa
- Elisabeth Trissenaar
- Vitus Zeplichal – Rudi
- Volker Spengler – Bruno
- Y Sa Lo – Ilse