Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder • 1979 • West Germany
Starring Harry Baer, Hark Bohm, Margit Carstensen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s follow-up to his international breakthrough THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN is a wildly anarchic satire of guerrilla terrorism in which a band of leftist radicals i...

“The Punishment Begins”
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder • 1980 • Germany

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s controversial, fifteen-hour BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ, based on Alfred Döblin’s great modernist novel, was the crowning achievement of a prolific director who, at age thirty-four, had already ...

“How Is One to Live If One Doesn’t Want to Die?”
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder • 1980 • Germany

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s controversial, fifteen-hour BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ, based on Alfred Döblin’s great modernist novel, was the crowning achievement of a prolific director who, at age ...

“A Hammer Blow to the Head Can Injure the Soul”
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder • 1980 • Germany

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s controversial, fifteen-hour BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ, based on Alfred Döblin’s great modernist novel, was the crowning achievement of a prolific director who, at age t...

“A Handful of People in the Depths of Silence”
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder • 1980 • Germany

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s controversial, fifteen-hour BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ, based on Alfred Döblin’s great modernist novel, was the crowning achievement of a prolific director who, at age th...

“A Reaper with the Power of Our Lord”
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder • 1980 • Germany

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s controversial, fifteen-hour BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ, based on Alfred Döblin’s great modernist novel, was the crowning achievement of a prolific director who, at age thirty-four...

“Love Has Its Price”
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder • 1980 • Germany

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s controversial, fifteen-hour BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ, based on Alfred Döblin’s great modernist novel, was the crowning achievement of a prolific director who, at age thirty-four, had already mad...

“Remember—An Oath Can Be Amputated”
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder • 1980 • Germany

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s controversial, fifteen-hour BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ, based on Alfred Döblin’s great modernist novel, was the crowning achievement of a prolific director who, at age thirty-four, ...

“The Sun Warms the Skin But Burns It Sometimes Too”
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder • 1980 • Germany

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s controversial, fifteen-hour BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ, based on Alfred Döblin’s great modernist novel, was the crowning achievement of a prolific director who, at a...

"About the Eternities Between the Many and the Few”
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder • 1980 • Germany

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s controversial, fifteen-hour BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ, based on Alfred Döblin’s great modernist novel, was the crowning achievement of a prolific director who, at a...

“Loneliness Tears Cracks of Madness Even in Walls”
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder • 1980 • Germany

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s controversial, fifteen-hour BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ, based on Alfred Döblin’s great modernist novel, was the crowning achievement of a prolific director who, at ag...

“Knowledge Is Power and the Early Bird Catches the Worm”
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder • 1980 • Germany

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s controversial, fifteen-hour BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ, based on Alfred Döblin’s great modernist novel, was the crowning achievement of a prolific director who,...

“The Serpent in the Soul of the Serpent”
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder • 1980 • Germany

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s controversial, fifteen-hour BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ, based on Alfred Döblin’s great modernist novel, was the crowning achievement of a prolific director who, at age thirty-f...

“The Outside and the Inside and the Secret of Fear of the Secret”
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder • 1980 • Germany

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s controversial, fifteen-hour BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ, based on Alfred Döblin’s great modernist novel, was the crowning achievement of a prolific dire...

Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder • 1980 • Germany
Starring Günter Lamprecht, Gottfried John, Barbara Sukowa

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s controversial, fifteen-hour BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ, based on Alfred Döblin’s great modernist novel, was the crowning achievement of a prolific director who...

Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder • 1981 • Germany
Starring Barbara Sukowa, Mario Adorf, Armin Mueller-Stahl

Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola (Barbara Sukowa), a seductive cabaret singer–prostitute, exults in her power as a tempter of men, but she wants more—money, property, and love. Pitt...

Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder • 1982 • Germany
Starring Rosel Zech, Hilmar Thate, Cornelia Froboess

A once-beloved Third Reich–era starlet, Veronika Voss (Rosel Zech) lives in obscurity in postwar Munich. Struggling for survival and haunted by past glories, she encounters sportswriter Rob...

Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder • 1982 • Germany
Starring Brad Davis, Franco Nero, Jeanne Moreau

Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s final film is a deliriously stylized tale of hothouse lust and simmering violence. Set amid an expressionistic soundstage vision of a French sea port, this da...