Wandering in Weimar Purgatory Museum of Modern Art Günter Lamprecht as Franz Biberkopf in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s “Berlin Alexanderplatz,” made for West German television in 1980. A. O. Scott The first episode of “Berlin Alexanderplatz,” Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 13-part (plus epilogue), 15 1/2-hour adaptation of Alfred Döblin’s 1929 novel, is called “The Punishment Begins.” (…)
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