Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Starring: Günter Lamprecht, Claus Holm, Hanna Schygulla

Franz Biberkopf is an unforgettable man: good-natured, soft, tender, but also hard, violent and brutal. Released from prison following a four-year sentence for the manslaughter of his girlfriend, he plans to make a new start and a decent life for himself. But a chaotic, decadent Berlin of the 20’s is not the easiest place for an ex-con to go straight and work is hard to come by. When Franz becomes fascinated by Reinhold, a psychotic small-time crook, he is soon drawn back into a world he cannot escape.

Bonus Features 

• Limited edition deluxe box set 
• 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
• Berlinale 2007 trailer
• 60 page perfect bound booklet featuring new essay by Cahiers Du Cinema’s Stephane du Mesnildot and archive material by Wim Wenders, Thomas Elsasser and Christian Braad Thomsen

Catalogue number: 2NDBR4078

Certificate: 15

Region: B