'Berlin Alexanderplatz' leads the 2020 German film awards, the Lolas, with 11 nominations, followed by Nora Fingscheidt's social drama 'System Crasher' with 10. By Scott Roxborough Burhan Qurbani’s ...

When Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 14-part miniseries Berlin Alexanderplatz aired on German public television in 1980, audiences complained they couldn't see anything in its murky nocturnal scenes. And ...

Paul is a freelance travel and culture writer who has written and updated a slew of guidebooks (Rough Guides, National Geographic, Wallpaper, Fodors, DK) on a variety of destinations. He is based in ...

The twin pillars of Alfred Döblin’s epochal 480-page 1929 German-language novel and Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s deeply influential 15-hour miniseries, first broadcast in 1980, together create an ...

Maverick German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 15-hour TV serial was showing at Edinburgh and I managed to sit through the whole thing. Most of the exciting films at this year's Edinburgh ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In the shadow of the Soviet-era Fernsehturm, or television tower, Alexanderplatz is one of Berlin’s less celebrated ...

Steven Weintraub launched Collider in the summer of 2005. As Editor-in-chief, he has taken the site from a small bedroom operation to having millions of readers around the world. Over the years, he ...

Director Burhan Qurbani updates Alfred Doblin’s classic novel as a modern-day gangster story starring Guinea-Bissau actor Welket Bungue and Albrecht Schuch in 'Berlin Alexanderplatz.' By Deborah Young ...