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| | Movie Database - tvguide.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) |
 | | BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ, an adaptation of Alfred Doblin's massive novel made for German television, runs approximately 15 hours, and makes up one-seventh of Fassbinder's total output. |
 | | What Doblin tried to do in his novel (written from 1927 to 1929) was to put into print the atmosphere of Berlin life. |
 | | Acknowledging his debt to Doblin, Fassbinder has said, "I had quite simply, without realizing it, made Doblin's fantasy into my life." In that sense, BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ is not the story of Berlin, but the story of Fassbinder--and in these 15 hours the two are inseparable. |
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