Berlin-Alexanderplatz (1931 film)

Berlin - Alexanderplatz is a German film production from 1931 is based on the 1929 novel, Berlin Alexanderplatz, the author Alfred Döblin. . The premiere took place on October 8, 1931.

Action

The after four years in prison released from prison Franz Biber head tries way back to normal life and runs a street trading at Alexanderplatz in Berlin. He learns Cecily know and love. Their former friend Reinhold is a gang leader who wants to persuade beaver head to join. When beaver head resists, he is thrown out of a moving car in front of another. He loses an arm, is in the hospital for weeks and closes demoralized but still Reinhold on.

In Kitty singing on backyards with a blind man, he finds a new girlfriend. Since she has a deep aversion to Reinhold, this attracts her to his car and kills them in a forest. By Cecily beaver head learns of the murder and goes in Reinholds local pub to settle accounts with him. The police arrested but beaver head that she suspected of the murder of Kitty. Plumbers Karl but reveals the real culprit Reinhold, the punishment is 15 years in prison. On the side of Cecily Francis succeeds in the end the return to civilian life. He is back at Alexanderplatz and sold bounceback.

Background

Unlike the novel, the film ends with a happy ending. Beavers head is stronger than in the novel in the middle of the action. Novelist Alfred Döblin published on 7 October 1931 in the light - image - stage a benevolent products to the film. The atmosphere and the local color of the Alexanderplatz district 'll mirrored unchanged, the language let Franz Biber head to speak directly and is therefore acoustically real than the novel, and the accompanying music support effectively the ever Sliding in Biberkopfs fate.

Awards

The Board of Film gave the film the title of " artistic ".

Reviews

" " Berlin - Alexanderplatz " lives primarily from the great performance Heinrich George and stands out as a mirror image of contemporary Berlin. However, a comparison with the literary text, the film can withstand in any way, even if it on the canvas rescues some elements of the novel across. "

" George plays the beaver head as a good-natured kid stick people, who can not cope with the intrigues of his environment. [ ... ] The camera always looks back to the hustle and transmission of the city, [ ... ] here wins in their simplicity rather melodramatic story credibility. "

More Releases

On February 22, 2008, a digitally reworked version of the film by the Berlin publisher Arthaus DVD was released.

1931 in film Screenplay Karlheinz Martin Arnold Pressburger Film score Allan Gray Paul Westermeier Paul Kemp (actor) Integrated Authority File
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