by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Produced for and shown on German television in 1980 as a 14-part miniseries, it also has been shown theatrically. It runs for 15 hours (NTSC and film releases expand the runtime by a half hour). Upon its release in New York City, ticket holders were required to come to the theatre for three consecutive nights to see the entire film. Both films were released in November 2007 by the Criterion Collection in the US in a multi-disc DVD. A Region 2 edition of the Fassbinder version was released in the UK by Second Sight in October that year. Burhan Qurbani directed the most recent film adaptation, Berlin Alexanderplatz, which premiered at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival in 2020. Qurbani's version recontextualised the lead role of Franz as Francis, an Afro-German refugee from Guinea-Bissau. See also List of fiction set in Berlin Museum of Modern Literature, where the original manuscript is held Best German Novels of the Twentieth Century References Bibliography Further reading Dollenmayer, David B. The Berlin Novels of Alfred Döblin: Wadzek's Battle with the Steam Turbine, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Men Without Mercy, and November 1918.'' Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. Print. Slugan, Mario. 2017. Montage as Perceptual Experience: Berlin Alexanderplatz from Döblin to Fassbinder. Rochester: Boydell & Brewer. External links Google Books 1929 German-language novels Novels by Alfred Döblin Novels about cities Novels about German prostitution Novels set in the 1920s Novels set in Berlin Futurist literature Modernist novels Weimar culture German novels adapted into films German novels adapted into television shows Works about criminals S. Fischer Verlag books 1929 German novels