Word: alexanderplatz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ Directed and Written by R. W. Fassbinder...
...novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929), Alfred Döblin dissected and described his characters' passions with the meticulous disinterest of a big-city coroner ("Then she sank to the part of his body she thought was his heart but was in fact his sternum and the upper lobe of his left lung"). A physician like his spiritual contemporary Céline, Döblin saw Germany as a huge human slaughterhouse and Franz as "a big, good-natured sheep.' Mixing statistics of death and disease with the story of some petty, brutal people living in East Berlin...