The twin pillars of Alfred Döblin’s epochal 480-page 1929 German-language novel and Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s deeply influential 15-hour miniseries, first broadcast in 1980, together create an ...

When Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 14-part miniseries Berlin Alexanderplatz aired on German public television in 1980, audiences complained they couldn't see anything in its murky nocturnal scenes. And ...

'Berlin Alexanderplatz' leads the 2020 German film awards, the Lolas, with 11 nominations, followed by Nora Fingscheidt's social drama 'System Crasher' with 10. By Scott Roxborough Burhan Qurbani’s ...

EXCLUSIVE: German Films, the agency that promotes German cinema globally, has unveiled the seven participants for the eighth edition of its annual Face to Face campaign, which include talents who have ...

— -- For nearly half a century the tallest building in Berlin has been a relic of its Soviet past. The Park Inn, a slender glass and concrete hotel in Alexanderplatz, was erected in the late 1960 ...

He drew acclaim as the central character in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 14-part 1980 television epic about Weimar Germany. By A.J. Goldmann Günter Lamprecht, the German character actor whose acclaimed ...

Alfred Doblin’s 1929 novel ’Berlin Alexanderplatz’ was a seminal work that cast its lot in with the German underclass just when the fast-growing Nazi party was elaborating the myth of the master race.

Director Burhan Qurbani updates Alfred Doblin’s classic novel as a modern-day gangster story starring Guinea-Bissau actor Welket Bungue and Albrecht Schuch in 'Berlin Alexanderplatz.' By Deborah Young ...