Rainer Werner Fassbinder's magnum opus

Based on the Alfred Doblin novel that was seen as the German Ulyyses, was a book that meant a lot to RWF, and it shows here. Franz Biberkopf is a scumbag,but he's the main character, and if the viewer sticks with it, you will care for a scumbag! Huge stretch isn't it? There is so much raw and inspirational cine-magic in here, fatalism, and even moments of joy, brief, and immorality, and some scandalous anti-religious sentiments, a smorgasborg of cutting edge early 80s cinema, made for tv, imo infinitely better than the best tv shows in North America, or Britain, the only Auteurist series I place above this is Kieslowski's Dekalog, I used to think the same for Edgar Reitz' Heimat trilogy, but that fell out of favor with me, felt too off, THIS however is utterly unique, from the odd encounter with the Jewish guy in the first Part to the cacophonous music collage at the end you will if you watch it all in a relatively short time will experience a neat thing Tom Tykwer described in his awesome essay accompanying the Criterion release, something about the sensation of going under water in a dreamy way, but I stress again the Fatalism vibe that is pretty heavy throughout.

Part 1 -- needs to be seen on YT
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Part 2
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Part 3
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Part 4 -- the 1st standout Part I love the spooky choral music!!
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Part 5
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Part 6
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Part 7
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Part 8
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Part 9
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Part 10
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Part 11
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Part 12 -- needs to be seen on YT
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Part 13
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Epilogue -- needs to be seen on YT
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