Berlin Alexanderplatz Limited Edition Blu-ray Box Set Detailed

British label Second Sight has detailed its upcoming Blu-ray release of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's saga Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980). The box set will be available for purchase on December 4.

Synopsis: 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. Starring Volker Spengler, Hanna Schygulla, Brigitte Mira, Roger Fritz, and Gottfried John.

Special Features and Technical Specs:

• 'Fassbinder: Love Without Demands' - The acclaimed 2015 feature length documentary by Christian Braad Thomsen
• An appreciation by writer and critic Tony Rayns
• Berlin Alexanderplatz - A Visual Essay by Daniel Bird
• A Mega Movie and it's Story' documentary by Juliane Lorenz
• 'The Restoration' documentary including 'before and after'
• The Original Recaps
• Stills and Production Photos
• Berlinale 2007 trailer

• 50-page perfect bound booklet featuring:
• New essay by Cahiers Du Cinema's Stephane du Mesnildot
• 'Christ, Rainer' by Wim Wenders
• Essay by Thomas Elsasser (excerpted from his book Fassbinder's Germany: History, Identity, Subject)
• Excerpt from Christian Braad Thomsen's 'Fassbinder'
• Michael Hofmann's Times Literary Supplement review of Berlin Alexanderplatz