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.” (…)

HE WHO INHABITS A HUMAN SKIN Fassbinder’s film epic “Berlin Alexanderplatz”, which provoked a storm of audience protest in the 1980s, is being shown for the first time at the Berlinale in a newly restored version Tom Tykwer – here is a tribute to “Alexanderplatz” and a declaration of love to experimental cinema by [German (…)