Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf follows the life of a recently released prisoner, Franz Biberkopf, as he navigates the criminal underworld, battles alcoholism, and tries to find his place in the urban setting of Berlin. Based on a novel, the story explores the challenges faced by the proletariat, the desperation of skid row residents, and the complex relationships amidst a city fraught with turmoil and vice.
Mutter Krause, her daughter Erna and her son Paul live in a tenement in the poorer section of Berlin's Wedding district. Along with them lives "the Tenant", his soon-to-be bride Friede, who works as a prostitute, and her child whose name isn't revealed in the film. Mutter Krause is a quiet, long-suffering old woman who earns what little she can delivering newspapers. However, Paul is an alcoholic and spends all her money on drink. Mutter Krause can't pay back the money she owes the man whose newspapers she delivered and he accuses her of stealing and threatens her with arrest. Mutter Krause must then pawn her last valuable possession, a treasured memento of her late husband. Paul then breaks into the same pawn shop. He gets away but is later arrested. Meanwhile, Erna begins dating a young man with Communist views, who turns Erna to Communism and also helps her earn the money her mother needs by more honest means.
Film shot in the coal mines, which uses the same mixture of truth (places and extras) and fiction (narrative).
Short film about an arrogant waiter.
The short story focuses on two anecdotal episodes about the Prussian King Frederick II. In the first episode, the monarch meets an invalid. In the second episode, Baron Warkotsch's servant informs the king that Kappel's master is committing treason against the Prussian king, which puts Frederick's life in grave danger.
Short by Phil Jutzi.
Short with Carlo Aldini.
Powerful semi-documentarian depiction of the miserable working and living conditions in the Silesian city of Waldenburg.
Three siblings, Tom, Jack and Mary escape poverty in the big city to find happiness in the wild west. They split up and soon find each other again on in the opposite side of the law.