#Berlin Alexanderplatz

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Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)

dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder

[tyger-land]

[nedison]

Everyone's smoking, clouds of smoke from pipes and cigarettes and cigars fog the whole huge hall. When it gets too smoky for the smoke, it looks for a way out which, thanks to its lightness, it can, through chinks and holes and ventilator shafts, all of which are under instruction to see it out. Once outside, though, there's only black night and freezing cold. Then the smoke regrets its impulsiveness, and opposes its nature, but the ventilators turn only one way, and there's nothing to be done about it. Too late. It's subject to physical laws. The smoke's not sure what it thinks about that, it tries to touch its brow and there's nothing there, it wants to think and it can't. The wind, the cold, the night, have it in their grip, and it is never seen again.

- Alfred Döblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz (trans. Michael Hofmann)

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berlin alexanderplatz, 1980 (dir. rainer werner fassbinder)

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[aschenblumen]

—¿Dónde entonces? ¿Perdiste tu corazón en un deporte? ¿En la corriente turbulenta del movimiento juvenil? ¿En el tumulto de la política? —No lo perdí allí. —¿No lo has perdido en ninguna parte? ¿Eres de los que nunca pierden el corazón sino que se lo guardan para sí, lo conservan cuidadosamente y lo momifican?

Alfred Döblin, «Libro cuarto: Biberkopf narcotizado, Franz se esconde, Franz no quiere mirar» en Berlin Alexanderplatz. Traducción de Miguel Sáenz.

[outstanding-quotes]

And anyone who still wants to ask if there’s such a thing as justice in the world, the bad news is: for the moment, no, at least not this week.

Alfred Döblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz

[wellavanilli]

I finally had time to do this

[thedarkacademiagraduate]

[kunterbuntebuecherreisen]

12 von 12: März 2025

Im Kopf bin ich noch bei Februar, was dazu geführt hat, dass ich gestern ein Date für den 7.3. ausmachen wollte. Im Moment genieße ich einfach, dass es früher hell wird, obwohl ich eigentlich eher auf Dunkelheit stehe. Allerdings hat das Frühlingswetter auch Nachteile – zumindest für mich: Ich habe Heuschnupfen. Trotzdem liebe ich das Frühjahr, vor allem, wenn bald endlich alles wieder anfängt zu…

[filmaticbby]

Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)

dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder

[nedison]

Berlin Alexanderplatz, dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1980)

[wolfie-wolfgang]

I'm a Berliner now

[lifewithaview]

Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) Ein Hammer auf den Kopf kann die Seele verletzen

E3

Our hero Franz Biberkopf tries to live from selling shoelaces going from door to door. Here he accidentally runs into his old lover Eva, which makes him so overwhelmed that he runs to the nearest flower shop and says something along the lines of: "I want to buy flowers that should express that the past just keeps following you; and days go by driving you on and on to a place where there is no future." [Or as paraphrased by Laurie Anderson: "Days go by Endlessly. And they just keep going by endlessly; Endlessly pulling you Into the future."] And the florist answers: "White Carnations" - the flower of death. And instead, Frantz buys red roses - and walks to another woman he has met along the route...

[aschenblumen]

Basada en la novela homónima de Alfred Döblin. Esta serie está disponible para ver online, con subtítulos en español incrustados.

[outstanding-quotes]

Promises, promises don’t make me any promises, because over time everyone is tempted.

Alfred Döblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz