Product Details

Actors: Günter Lamprecht
Directors: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Format: PAL
Language: German
Subtitles: English
Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
Number of discs: 6
Classification: 15
Studio: Second Sight Films Ltd.
DVD Release Date: 22 Oct. 2007
Run Time: 910 minutes

TV drama series directed by renowned German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, adapted from an Alfred Döblin novel. The series was basically a 15 hour narrative by one man - Franz Bierkopf. Bierkopf is a compelling character - good natured, soft, tender and equally hard, violent and brutal when required. Fresh out of prison in 1920s Germany after a four stretch for doing away with his girlfriend, he's working at making a new start and going straight. He meets Reinhold, a magnetic yet dangerous and halfwitted low-rent burglar and falls under his spell. Very soon any hope Bierkopf had of going straight, goes straight out of the window.

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